By The Editors
Julius L. Chambers, a former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund was honored this week in his native North Carolina in perhaps the most fitting way possible: with a two-day conference intended to identify ways to complete “The Unfinished Work” of the struggle for civil rights.

By Lee A. Daniels
These are dark-skinned people, not … like you and me.”

There you have it. Brief and to the point. The words sound so familiar, so American.

But they weren’t spoken by an American.

By Lee A. Daniels
Every great movement has its great traitors.

Now, thanks to The Commercial Appeal newspaper of Memphis, we know the name of one of the Civil Rights Movement’s great traitors: Ernest C. Withers.

By Lee A. Daniels
Since the election of Ronald Reagan especially, it’s become the mantra of the conservative quest to make racial bigotry not disappear but just become unacknowledged.

Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, died Sunday. In 1957 he and eight other black teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas, risked their lives to go to the high school they were entitled to in order to prove the greatest declaration of American idealism had meaning.

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 [...]

By The Editors This Saturday Glenn Beck, the conservative talk show personality, is leading a rally of conservatives at the Lincoln Memorial. He has declared it “divine providence” that it will occur on the forty-seventh anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and the famous “I Have A Dream” speech of Martin Luther King’s Jr. [...]

By Lee A. Daniels
There is no “battle for Dr. King’s legacy,” as one newspaper headline, intended to be attention-grabbing, put it this week. The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and of the black freedom struggle was affirmed for all time at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.

By The Editors
Jimmie Lee Jackson died at 26 on February 18, 1965 in the melee that erupted when Alabama state police brutally set upon nonviolent protest marchers who had just come from a mass meeting on voting rights in a Marion church.

By Doug Miller
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says it has concluded reinvestigations into 56 of 109 cold cases involving Civil Rights-related murders dating back to the 1940s, and acknowledges that for a variety of reasons – including the deaths of suspects and witnesses and the destruction of evidence – most of them are unlikely to result in prosecutions.