Category: Civil Rights & Social Justice

Last summer, on July 6, we learned of a new reason for the police to kill an unarmed Black person: a pot of hot water. Sonya Massey, then

Source: Cultura Creative / Getty What if I told you the United States government once made a sweeping move to erase the necessary stories and experiences of individuals

Source: UCG / Getty When I was a kid, I never saw myself in the classroom. Not in the books we read. Not in the stories my teachers

Source: picture alliance / Getty It has been more than a decade since 2014, when a Michigan state-appointed emergency manager decided it was a good idea to save

Source: picture alliance / Getty It has been more than a decade since 2014, when a Michigan state-appointed emergency manager decided it was a good idea to save

Source: JOSPIN MWISHA / Getty The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear the case of Damon Landor, a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by

Source: MARK FELIX / Getty Juneteenth offers a time of celebration and reflection as we consider what it means to be free amid resurgent fascism in America. While

Source: GoFundMe / GoFundMe They named him Chance. A name heavy with hope, but also haunted by the weight of everything it took to get him here. Chance,

Source: GoFundMe / GoFundMe Adriana Smith’s family spent the weekend of her 31st birthday praying for her newborn son and preparing to finally say goodbye to the young

Source: Annika McFarlane / Getty Juneteenth, now a federally recognized holiday, commemorates June 19, 1865—the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they were free, more