Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Civil Rights”
A controversial acquittal. A 35-year prison sentence. A $5,000 bond. A burning cross in Chicago. Legally, these incidents are unrelated. Yet together they have revived one of the most enduring questions in American life: What happens when equal justice stops feeling equal?
Albert Einstein is remembered for changing how humanity understands the universe. Less remembered is that he lectured at an HBCU, condemned racism as a disease, and declined an offer to become president of Israel. Together, those choices reveal a deeper story about character, humility, and power.
Kansas called itself a “free state,” while Missouri flew the Confederate banner. Yet in 1930s Kansas City, Kansas, the Ku Klux Klan thrived — and decades later, the FBI saved its firepower for the Black Panthers instead. By Julius Rangal, InnerKwest Investigations TeamPublished: August 30, 2025 Introduction The history of American law enforcement is often presented as a steady march …
November 15, 2019 Some people suggest genocide is too strong a word for the maltreatment of black people in America. True genocide is something that happened in Nazi Germany, Armenia and Rwanda, not the United States of America. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who has represented the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, delivers a forceful debut exposé of …
