By Tarice L.S. Gray
Eighty percent of fourth-graders, 83 percent of eighth-graders, and a truly astonishing 86 percent of high school seniors failed to show a “proficient” knowledge and understanding of the nation’s history – or rather, that they knew and understood the subject matter.

By Lee A. Daniels
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

That idea, first conceived and expressed by the nineteenth-century abolitionist Theodore Parker and then re-cast and made famous in our time by Martin Luther King, Jr., has always been the guiding force of black Americans’ freedom struggle.

By Vern E. Smith
At the final curtain call of another sold-out performance of “The Green Book,” Atlanta playwright Calvin Alexander Ramsey’s moving two-act drama set in America before the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, veteran Atlanta actor Rob Cleveland, who plays its central character, told the well-integrated Balzer Theater audience: “None of us had ever heard of this book before we started the play.”

By The Editors
A Washington state men, with an extensive links to a neo-Nazi website and white-supremacist organizations, has pleaded guilty to attempting to bomb the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade last January 17.

By Lee A. Daniels When is a painting not just a painting – but a mirror? That’s the question which leaps out of the current controversy over a painting that President Obama secured to hang in a well-trafficked corridor outside the Oval Office that first appeared forty-seven years ago in one of the most widely-read [...]

By Lee A. Daniels
Imagine, in the heart of Dixie, once the land of cotton, where, to some whites, the old times of white-over-black dominion are not only not forgotten but wistfully remembered, there’s a park that’s a memorial to treason.

By Lee A. Daniels
The story of the Virginia scholarships, to some degree, and, even more directly, of the state of Oklahoma’s refusal to properly compensate the Tulsa black community for Greenwood’s destruction casts into sharp relief the harm the post-Civil War century of legalized racism did to the ability of black American individuals, families and communities to gain and hold a solid economic footing in American society.

By The Editors
Why did Norman Redlich, Clara Luper, and Paul E. Sullivan act as if the words of the Declaration of Independence about “self-evident truths” and “inalienable rights” were not just rhetoric but had an actual meaning for American society?

By Kenneth J. Cooper
“Freedom Riders” is a well-documented ride through history, back 50 years into another century, when America seemed like a different place. It is no joy ride.

By Lee A. Daniels
Why is a symbol of a treasonous undertaking, led by men who betrayed their oaths as elected officials and military officers of the United States, still honored by those who claim to pledge allegiance to the United States of America?