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: Selected Media
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...
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...
Stand Up for Science: Nationwide Protests Oppose Trump Cuts to Research from Cancer to Climate Change
Scientists rallied nationwide last Friday in opposition to the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts for scientific research and mass layoffs impacting numerous agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and...
Buffalo’s Billion-Dollar Freeway Fix Is on Ice, But Not Because of Trump
Across the US, state departments of transportation are scrambling to determine whether they can proceed with projects funded by the Biden Administration’s signature infrastructure bills. Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump signed a series...
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...
Juan González: Immigrant Rights Groups Are Playing Key Role in Confronting Trump’s Neofascist Coup
Democracy Now! co-host Juan González describes how immigrant communities are organizing to fight back against the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. “Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance,” he says. “It’s obvious that the...
Intimidate and humiliate’: MLK family fears what Trump will do with ‘secret’ FBI records
Three days into his second term, President Donald Trump ordered the release and declassification of FBI files on three historic figures who were assassinated during the 1960s: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., President John...
Making Old-Style Imperialism Great Again
A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New Possessions.” Its cover featured the Statue of Liberty against stylized stars and stripes....
Black Folks Have Been Calling for A Boycott and It’s Happening on February 28th. Here’s
Incensed by DEI Rollback, Black folks started calling for boycotts of Walmart and others. There is a call for anyone who is upset about corporations bowing to the whims of the president to boycott...