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 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.

By The Editors Related Links Congress Extends Hate Crimes Law Protections to Gay Men and Lesbians; Obama Expected to Sign the Measure Declaring that “we must stand against crimes that are meant not only to break bones, but to break spirits—not only to inflict harm, but to instill fear,” President Obama has signed historic legislation [...]

By Lee A. Daniels
There are four men still living who know in all of its gruesome detail the maelstrom of violence that took the lives of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner that June night in Neshoba County, Mississippi during the “Mississippi Freedom Summer” of 1964.

By Rev. Susan Newman
On Easter Monday, April 13, when many children were enjoying a holiday from school and still eating chocolate bunnies, 11 year old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Springfield, Massachusetts, was being eulogized.