Source: CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN)The area of Philadelphia where two men were arrested while waiting at a Starbucks last week has what the American Civil Liberties Union calls “the […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack On an otherwise unremarkable June day nearly four decades ago, the LDS Church made a momentous declaration: It was opening its priesthood to “all worthy males,” ending a centurylong ban on black men and boys being ordained, and on black women […]
Source: Religion And Politics By Lerone A. Martin | April 3, 2018 In 2017, the National Archives released a new trove of FBI files in response to a Freedom of Information Act […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein, Julie Zauzmer and DeNeen L. Brown On the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder, one of the activist pastors who has tried to follow in […]
Source: The Guardian By David Smith in Washington The Rev Dr William Barber’s arrival in the world was full of portent. He was born on 30 August 1963, two days after Martin Luther King’s […]
Source: Religion News Service By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service is marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with stories and commentaries looking […]
Source: The Guardian By Richard Adams Education editor Amanda Spielman has called for ‘muscular liberalism’ to promote British values in schools. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Efforts to bar girls […]
Source: MSN News By Marc Perrusquia Bobby Doctor understood the movement came with peril. Eagerly, he dodged fists and boots while integrating lunch counters; he negotiated angry mobs as he marched […]
Source: TED Talk Christian Picciolini At 14, Christian Picciolini went from naïve teenager to white supremacist — and soon, the leader of the first neo-Nazi skinhead gang in the United […]
Source: Time By LILY ROTHMAN March 19, 2018 Mitch Landrieu was a child when he learned that race could be a problem in New Orleans. As the son of Mayor Moon […]
Source: Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Anti-Defamation League is lashing out at one of Israel’s chief rabbis for comparing black people to monkeys. The New York City-based organization devoted […]
Letting go of God by Julia Sweeney The second half of this video is about Mormonism. When two young Mormon missionaries knock on Julia Sweeney’s door one day, it touches […]
Source: Time By OLIVIA B. WAXMAN March 6, 2018 More than a century after Harriet Tubman died in March of 1913, the Library of Congress announced on Tuesday that it has […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Anthea Butler Evangelical preacher Billy Graham was lain in honor Wednesday in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Graham is the first American religious leader to be […]
Source: Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police said a popular ethnic Chinese rapper has been detained over complaints that his latest music video featuring dancers wearing dog […]
Source: Huffington Post The Cleveland Cavaliers star said he will “talk about what’s really important” when it comes to the state of race relations in America. LeBron James made it […]
Source: MSN By Jill Lawless LONDON — DNA from a 10,000-year-old skeleton found in an English cave suggests the oldest-known Briton had dark skin and blue eyes, researchers said Wednesday. […]
Source: The Wahsington Post By Amy B Wang February 5 at 9:10 AM Email the author The U.S. Capitol. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Like most candidates running for Congress, Arthur Jones has a campaign […]
‘We Can Be a Better Country If We Know These Stories.’ The Complicated History of African Americans in the Military Source: Time There are as many different kinds of war […]
Source: BBC News In March 2016, a 22-year-old man was hacked to death in daylight on a crowded road in southern India for marrying a woman of a higher caste. […]