Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Apr 10, 2025, 12:05pm EDT Martin Luther King waves to ...

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Americans talk about Civil Rights as a political movement. But as MLK well knew, it was more than that. It was a revival. Prophet or activist? Pastor or social reformer? In the six decades since his ...

(The Contrarian) – “There’s a real inflection point this May Day,” Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, said about the day unions worldwide attempt to recognize workers, ...

A popular counternarrative to this story tends to pay most attention to the activist groups that embraced violent direct action: less ballot, more bullet. During the summer of 2020, as police ...

Martin Luther King Jr's legacy in the Civil Rights space is an ever-present inspiration to all oppressed and marginalized ...

Rethinking social movement theory : race, class, gender, and culture -- Exclusion, empowerment, and partnership : race gender relations -- Women and the escalation of the civil rights movement -- ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

Republican state lawmakers are one step closer to passing a bill that would strike all mentions of "gender identity" from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. The bill stems from a lawsuit that accuses the Iowa ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A man who courageously participated in the sit-in civil rights movements of the 1960s in downtown Nashville has died. According to multiple Metro Councilmembers, Vencen ...

Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ movement is losing ground in America because it has become "radicalized." In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay ...

The organization said many of those targeted by the raids, conducted by a unit created by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, were Democratic leaders and election volunteers. Members of the League ...