Today in civil rights history: James Meredith graduates from Ole Miss
Twice denied admission, he filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, alleging that the university had rejected him only because of his race.
A year later, some change in Ferguson but none whatsoever at Fox News
Fox News coverage of this week's events failed to place anything in context and amounted to a full-fledged attempt to stoke the flames of racism and violence.
Today in history: The Watts Uprising breaks out 50 years ago in Los Angeles
Widespread protest, spurred on by destitute residents of Watts who were embittered after years of economic oppression and political isolation, eventually ranged over a 50-square-mile area.
Trump embraces “ridiculous” mass deportation policy
Trump says we round up and deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants, and he will do so because he knows how to manage.
Boy Scouts of America to allow gay adult leaders
The new policy, aimed at easing a controversy that has embroiled the Boy Scouts for years, takes effect immediately.
Sandra Bland's jailers spinning autopsy results
The trooper plainly didn't like Bland's forthright defense of her civil rights; in Texas, you can be prosecuted for resisting arrest even if the actual arrest was illegal.
Jews, the civil rights movement, Israel: hot topics in Open HIllel tour
In each of the campuses where they refused Open Hillel's request that we vets be permitted to speak, the Open Hillel students arranged alternative campus venues.
Ohioans protest as Kasich announces his campaign for presidency
Ohioans fed up with John Kasich's pro-1 percent policies came out in droves to protest their governor as he announced his bid for the Republican nomination for president
Justice for Tamir Rice dealt legal blow ahead of civil rights conference
An Ohio appeals court declined to force the arrest of the Cleveland police officers involved in the murder of 12-year old Tamir Rice.
Today in African-American history: Mary McLeod Bethune born in 1875
She organized African American women in the South to vote despite the Jim Crow poll tax and other racist restrictions.
