By Lee A. Daniels
Last week, during a ceremony saturated with pomp and circumstance and profound historical resonance, Carl E. Clark, a Navy veteran, was awarded a medal by the Secretary of the Navy for the kind of wartime devotion to duty – saving the lives of hundreds of his fellow sailors – Hollywood makes movies about.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund mourns the passing of Judge Robert L. Carter, a true giant of the struggle for racial justice and equality.

By The Editors
Hero.

The word is overused. But if one accepts its true definition, then certainly Derrick Bell and the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth did enough during their lives to qualify several times over.

By George E. Curry Rev. Joseph Lowery is a civil rights icon. He participated in all of the epic civil rights battles of his day, including the Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott, the violent showdown with “Bull” Connor in Birmingham, the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the famous 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice. He was [...]

By Trymaine Lee from The Huffington Post
Thirty-one years ago, while Rideau was serving a life sentence in prison for murder, he was awarded a George Polk Award for his work in journalism, one of the most coveted awards in the industry. He was not able to receive the award in person, until just last week.

By Martin Kilson
Peter Gomes was a gracious, loving, and generous soul, and the Harvard community will miss him.

By Kristen Clarke
What I appreciated most about Dr. Marable was that he rejected the presumption that academics need to maintain a social distance from activists. He was not at all interested in being a scholar who merely produced scholarship high in the ivory towers of academia.

By Lee A. Daniels
John L. Cashin, Jr., whose civil rights activism in the middle decades of the twentieth century, helped to transform the South, cannot be called a Founding Father

By The Editors
The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a black churchman who forged a distinctive career in the historic position of chief minister to Harvard University, died Monday evening at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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.