Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 25, 2013
The U.S. attorney general said Thursday that the Justice Department would respond to the Supreme Court ruling against the Voting Rights Act by seeking to require states to obtain federal approval before putting political redistricting changes in place. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Meleiza FigueroaJul 21, 2013
Read along as I list the abundance of “little things” that made the killing of Trayvon Martin, and that of innumerable young men like him, both possible and defensible in a court of law They are the daily corrosions through which the micro-degradations of racism and white supremacy eat away at our lives. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 24, 2012
“ If one is truly nonviolent, that person has a loving spirit; he refuses to inflict injury upon the opponent because he, he loves the opponent,” the Rev Martin Luther King Jr says in a newly discovered tape of an interview made nearly three years before his "I Have a Dream" speech . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 21, 2012
In an urgent and informed discussion on race relations spanning America’s early history to the stop-and-frisk policies of the present, author, historian and New York Public Library research director Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad tells Bill Moyers how the nation’s laws were written to control black Americans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 10, 2012
Sixteen states have passed laws that could restrict the right of people of color to cast their ballot by requiring that voters at the polls show photo ID, which some may lack or find difficult to obtain. “Democracy Now!” spends an hour discussing the issue with 13-term Georgia Congressman John Lewis, a key figure of the civil rights movement. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Mel White / TruthdigDec 24, 2011
According to James H. Cone's “The Cross and the Lynching Tree,” Jesus was crucified by the same principalities and powers that lynched almost 5,000 black people in this country. The lynching tree is the cross in America. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigOct 9, 2007
The cliché does not mean much anymore. It's time to start seeing African-Americans as Americans, period. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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