Like much of America, Michigan has a long history of using economic and social leverage to ghettoize its African American citizens, but it als…

Echoing Eric Garner, the mantra of the modern civil rights movement remains “I can’t breathe,” the last words spoken by Garner and then George…

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, its ancestral burial grounds, and its water supply were in the way of the Dakota Access Pipeline, but that didn…

A land of contradictions from the outset, the United States was founded by slave owners who spoke passionately and eloquently about liberty, f…

The March from Selma to Montgomery took place in Alabama, as did the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church and some of the most important …

Far from Alabama and 11 years before Rosa Parks took her stand, a teenager with a white father and Alaska Native mother named Alberta Schenck …

In 2010, Arizona passed the most restrictive, most sweeping, and—in the eyes of its detractors—most racist immigration law in America. Among o…

Decades before Cesar Chavez popularized the plight of agricultural laborers in California, a coalition of Mexican and Japanese farmworkers bla…