Tag: civil rights

A Democratic lawmaker envisions a multi-purpose cultural center dedicated to the Black experience in the Sunshine State — and he wants it in Orlando.

Four Muslim women in West Orange on what the protests in Iran mean to them.

More than 1,000 reproductive rights supporters protested the Supreme Court's draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade at the Bans Off Our Bodies rally in Orlando — one of hundreds held across the nation Saturday.

Sen. Randolph Bracy: “This fight will continue in court. We will not let him get away with it.”

On this third anniversary of his death, keep the hope of justice alive.

In 1950 and 1951, the Ku Klux Klan brutally murdered two young Black men from Oakland who worked in the citrus fields. For decades, the stories were passed down in whispers—if they were shared at all. Now, the town is finally, publicly, acknowledging what happened 70 years ago.

Parade, the musical about the lynching that reawakened the KKK, gets a showing in a former Klan stronghold.

Met with fierce community opposition, school officials say they’re open to finding a new location.

ap dancer-choreographer-producer-teacher Maurice Hines has been advocating for Black lives and gay rights long before there were hashtags. A new documentary looks back at this iconic entertainer.

The Mountaintop, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall, shows us the flesh-and-blood man behind the larger-than-life civil rights hero