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Robert Cairns: Gains are slow, but justice and equality are growing
The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 6 days agoApr. 26—I've long believed Martin Luther King Jr.'s exclamation that "the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." It can be hard to see in the moment, but if we look ...
Don’t Forget the Backlash to the ’60s
Politico· 14 hours agoA 1963 Gallup poll found that shortly before Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, only 27 percent of people believed mass demonstrations were...
The civil rights activist so close to Martin Luther King Jr. she was thought of as his ‘other wife’
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoThe most damaging is that King may have witnessed – and encouraged – a sexual assault at a Washington, D.C. hotel in January 1964. Garrow publishes content from FBI files noting that a woman ...
50 Juneteenth quotes that capture the true meaning of the holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJuneteenth falls on Wednesday, June 19. A portmanteau of the words “June” and “nineteenth,” the...
Historians Look Back at Life and Career of Civil Rights Activist and Representative John Lewis in...
People via Yahoo News· 2 hours ago'John Lewis: A Life' will look back on the late politician's career, from becoming a symbol of...
50 Juneteenth quotes that capture the true meaning of the holiday
The Today Show via AOL· 3 days agoJuneteenth falls on Wednesday, June 19. A combination of the words “June” and “nineteenth,” the...
Fort Myers' Southward Village coming down; Greater Dunbar Initiative begins
The News-Press· 9 hours agoOn Wednesday, crews with Honc Destruction began leveling the property for a new mixed-income,...
At Columbia University Hatred of Israel Is Part of the Curriculum
Newsweek· 2 days agoIn the words of Martin Luther King Jr., "Hate is too great a burden to bear." "Go back to Poland!"...
Family of flea market murder victim struggles to find closure
WINK TV Southwest Florida· 1 day agoThe family of a woman who was murdered at an Arcadia flea market continues to seek justice as the...
10 protesters identified after arrests at USF pro-Palestinian rally
FOX 13 Tampa Bay· 2 days agoThe ten protesters arrested after a pro-Palestinian rally at USF devolved into chaos and the...