ASALH’S MAGNA CARTA
ASALH’s Magna Carta: A Call to Action Ida B. Wells said, “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Inspired by this, ASALH convened a national discussion with...
Category: Racial Justice
Trump Wants Immigrants on U.S. Soil to Hand Over Social Media Accounts to Apply for Citizenship
Trump is demanding social media handles for citizenship, green card, and visa applicants whether they’re already in the U.S. or not. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to force people in the U.S. applying for...
Trump Is Cracking Down on Universities. Florida Had a Head Start.
The state’s laws have dismantled campus DEI initiatives, banned political or social activism and redefined core curricula Three years ago, as a University of Florida freshman, Bia Castanho kept her head down and her...
Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, civil rights leaders in Selma continue fight
What would John Lewis do today? On a Sunday morning 60 years ago, activists rewrote the story of the civil rights movement in their own blood on the streets of Selma, Alabama. State troopers...
House votes to censure Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump’s speech to Congress
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday. The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln...
Jury diversity is a worthy goal and there are ways to reach it
Jury service is not easy and it’s not popular. But the right to a jury is embedded in the constitutional right to a fair trial. When juries do not reflect the diversity of the...
Racism was called a health threat. Then came the DEI backlash.
David R. Williams and Rachel Hardeman are population health researchers at different universities with one thing in common: Both have been added to a right-wing “watch list” for teaching about and researching the ways...
Brooklyn’s remarkable and unknown Black history revealed: ‘Slaveholding capital’
Long before it became the go-to borough for hipsters and commuters, Brooklyn was once America’s third largest city, independent and separate from Manhattan and the City of New York, explains Prithi Kanakamedala in “Brooklynites:...
I’m a Black American—Here’s Why I’m Not Celebrating the 4th of July
The ugly truths hidden within the fabric of America’s legacy are why I’m not celebrating the 4th of July—and never will Karen Greene Braithwaite, As Told To Lynnette Nicholas July 3, 2024 Read the...