California’s Chance to Lead for Poor Children
When I was a young civil rights lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Mississippi, I was called in 1967 to testify before Congress [...]
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Remembering the Very Courageous Dovey Johnson Roundtree
When Dovey Johnson Roundtree passed away on May 21 at age 104 our nation lost another far too unknown extraordinary groundbreaking Black woman leader. During [...]
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Help Us Keep Dr. King’s Promise
In a few weeks . . . we are coming to Washington in a Poor People’s Campaign. Yes, we are going to bring the tired, [...]
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Honoring Birmingham’s Great Children’s Crusade Which Changed Our Nation
“Daddy,” the boy said, “I don't want to disobey you, but I have made my pledge. If you try to keep me home, I will [...]
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Dr. James Cone
“The lynching tree interprets the cross. It keeps the cross out of the hands of those who are dominant. Nobody who is lynching anybody can [...]
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Only the Truth Will Set Us Free
We want to tell the truth, because we believe in truth and reconciliation but we know that truth and reconciliation are sequential. We can’t get [...]
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No Turning Back
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released last month, “K-12 Education: Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities,” reminds us once [...]
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Child Opportunity and Stability Starts at Home
Fifty years ago this week the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, became law after passing Congress in the [...]
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Remembering Dr. King
I first heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in person on April 19, 1960 at Spelman College’s Sisters Chapel during my senior year in [...]
Read MoreLet’s Move Forward Together
In the spring of 1960, I was a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta and decided to help organize the civil rights student sit-in movement [...]
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