By Stacey Patton
August 28th marks the 55th anniversary of the brutal murder of 14 year-old Emmett Louis Till. In the summer of 1955 he was forced out of his bed in the middle of the night at gunpoint by white men, thrown on the back of a pick-up truck and driven to a barn [...]

By Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great [...]

By Lee A. Daniels
The Muslim-American residents of Murfreesboro, Tennessee have discovered this summer they’re not as “American” as they perhaps thought they were.
Not in the hearts and minds of some of their non-Muslim neighbors, anyway.
And so, they now find themselves on the other side – the bad side – of the “tipping point.”
In terms of [...]

By Theodore M. Shaw
He brought an energy and commitment to his work that was rooted in his unabashed commitment to improving the lives of African-American people.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Most people are astonished when I tell them the Cherokees owned slaves. Schools don’t teach about the slaveholding of the Cherokee and four other tribes who, most ironically, became known as the “Five Civilized Tribes.”

By Lee A. Daniels
They’ve discovered – again – that baseball really is just like America.
That’s the meaning I took from Thursday’s New York Times story pointing out glaring racial disparity in the game between the positions of first-base and third-base coach. At the first-base position, twenty of the thirty coaches are of African-American, Latino-American or Asian descent. Of the thirty third-base coaches, twenty-three are white, three are black and four are Latino.

By Lee A. Daniels
The words practically leapt out of the Sunday New York Times article on the suddenly growing opposition in some cities and towns to proposals by Muslim Americans to build or expand their mosques.

By Lee A. Daniels
The racist fable that Andrew Breitbart and that loose clique of conservative confederates in the media tried to spin about Shirley Sherrod underscore a point historian Barbara W. Tuchman made years ago about the ethics of her profession.

“Leaving things out because they do not fit,” she wrote in her 1982 book, Practicing History: Selected Essays, “is writing fiction, not history.”

By Lee A. Daniels
The name of William Stewart Simkins, an early twentieth-century law professor once officially held in high esteem at the University of Texas at Austin, will now live on in shame.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
The lack of opportunity makes the internet all the more enticing as a content producing platform. An artist can initiate their own opportunity and control their own image.