Civil Rights & Social Justice
CHICAGO, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Urban Growers Collective (UGC) announces a landmark partnership with the Obama Foundation to anchor summer programming at the new Obama Presidential Center (OPC). Running through September 20, 2026, UGC will host Garden Gatherings, a six-part intergenerational series activating the Eleanor Roosevelt Fruit and Vegetable Garden as a hub for civic engagement and food justice. […]
Discover how Frederick Douglass’ “power concedes nothing” call still drives America’s fight for true freedom and equality today.
Supreme Court rulings limit religious, voting rights for minorities, with concerns over enforcement and impact
From Reconstruction to affirmative action, gains for Black Americans have a history of triggering efforts to repeal them.
Memorial Day honors military sacrifice, Black history, and racial justice. Sybil Wilkes' segment explores these themes through personal stories.
While speaking at an American Law Institute conference, Brown said that the Voting Rights Act ruling only hurts trust in the Supreme Court.
Black community leaders fight voting rights threats, entrepreneurs revitalize neighborhoods, and Black music icons honored in cultural legacy.
Activist Matthew Pridgen confronts racial injustice rooted in the white Christian community, calling for truth and action to address systemic oppression.
Rev. Stephen Green of Greater Allen AME Cathedral discusses faith-based organizing, the liberating gospel, and the Black church's 200+ year legacy of resistance in Queens, NY.
Silvia Lopez-Navarro, a white woman with a hispanic last name, filed a federal class-action lawsuit because she was not allowed into a program that supports Black mothers and their babies.
From courtrooms to outer space, from concert halls to the halls of Congress, these extraordinary black women did not just break barriers they dismantled them, rebuilt what came after, and made the impossible inevitable for those who followed. They walked into rooms that were never designed with them in mind and left behind blueprints for […]
Long before hashtags mobilized millions with a single post, Black women were already organizing movements that would change the course of history. Without the amplification of social media, they relied on community networks, church gatherings, word of mouth, and relentless determination to build power from the ground up. Their leadership was not always centered in […]