Cover Photo: John Lewis at the March on Washington in 1963. Getty Images. . . . We are tired. We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people…
A public lynching played itself out on our cell phones as we, with him, cried out in agony and anguish. Hattie DeBardelaben, Samuel Bacon: these individuals preceded in death Oscar Grant, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Pamela Turner, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and Breonna Taylor.
Photo: “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” (MPI/Getty Images) The term lynching is not a metaphor. It doesn’t apply to every heinous racist assault against black people. But it’s also true that the term…
Media commentary to the contrary notwithstanding, Senator-Elect Doug Jones’ innovative prosecutorial work on the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing was not his only contribution to the civil rights agenda, although he is best…
On June 5, 1964, a few weeks before the murder of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman in Neshoba, I sent my mother a letter from Jackson, Mississippi. With other staff members…