Today in history: Juneteenth celebrates 1865 freedom for slaves
This still popularly observed African American celebration honors the day when slaves in Texas heard they had been freed.
This week in history: American Humanists organize
Humanism is an ethical worldview based on rationality and scientific reasoning and rejects divisive superstitions and stereotypes.
This week in history: FDR calls for Four Freedoms
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt articulated the fundamental goals of Four Freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy.
Protest against prosecutor’s charges in year-old Ferguson arrests
The News Guild denounced the St. Louis County prosecutor's criminal charges against the two reporters who were arrested a year ago during the protests against Michael Brown's death.
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.
Remembering Mandela in Detroit: You are my friends and comrades
When Nelson Mandela was in Detroit a special rally was held - not in a fancy ballroom or millionaire's home - but at the Ford Rouge auto plant with autoworkers.
Amistad Awards inspire unity and struggle
NEW HAVEN, CONN. -- From the opening video and drumming to the remarks of the awardees, songs, youth slide show and finale, an atmosphere of unity and optimism inspired the entire multi-racial audience at the 2013 People's World Amistad Awards, held in the auditorium of Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School.
Today in history: President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
One of the best-known speeches in American history, it was delivered by Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Today in women's history: Anne Hutchinson banned from Bay Colony
Not enough is said today about the role of women in formulating the basic beliefs we have about the nature of freedom itself.
Today in women's history: Long live Fannie Lou Hamer
On this day in 1977 Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer passed away.
