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Evolved Man Series: Bayard Rustin
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s Evolved Man Series, where we highlight individuals that embody what it means to be an evolved man—famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their...
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A Middle-Class White Woman Admits She Doesn’t Have a Clue
Setting the stage: I carry several labels that include white, middle-class, Jewish, well educated, cis-gender, Liberal, and female. Nowhere among my descriptors is African American, Multi-racial, PoC,...
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RIP John Lewis: Paying Tribute to the ‘Conscience of Congress’
As he’s laid to rest later this week, there will be no shortage of salutes to Congressman John Lewis, the formidable civil rights activist and legislator from Georgia who departed this earth on July...
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What Would MLK Say Today, on the 57th Anniversary of the March on Washington?
Today, August 28, 2020, marks the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, a seminal event in the civil rights movement. The highlight of the gathering was the famous “I Have A Dream”...
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Stability in an Unstable World: Remembering Ralph Bunche
By Stephen G. Hall Note: This blog is a tribute to Ralph Bunche (1904-1971), an African American policymaker and diplomat, African Americans have played a seminal role in impacting global policy as...
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Spectator Sports—and Romance—Are Back
Editor’s note: The fact that sporting events are open to the public does not mean attendees are without risk of contracting COVID-19 at the events. The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says:...
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Controversial Contest: The Nation’s Most Famous Pageant for Women Will Cease...
AFTER MONTHS OF INTENSE CONTROVERSY plaguing the Miss America Organization in 2018, Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989 and chairwoman of the governing body, announced that the nation’s most famous...
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Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard Thurman has come across my desk many times in the past year. His book Jesus and the Disinherited is a small and readable guide to the experience, perspective, and theology behind the Civil...
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Free Speech: Protecting Citizens’ Voices Advances Societies
The Chinese government sentenced a book publisher to three years in prison in February after she voiced support for a prominent critic of the Chinese Communist Party. Geng Xiaonan’s sentence came after...
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Higher Education: The Intense Intersection of Racial, Religious, and Sexual...
Editor’s note: This post was written in November 2019 and is, regrettably, still relevant today. — Over the past few months, hell, past few years, a number of college campuses have been inundated with...
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TV’s First Interracial Kiss Launched a Lifelong Career in Activism
Matthew Delmont, Arizona State University On Nov. 22, 1968, an episode of “Star Trek” titled “Plato’s Stepchildren” broadcast the first interracial kiss on American television. The episode’s plot is...
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MLK’s Freedom Church of the Poor
By Colleen Wessel-McCoy, PhD Colleen Wessel-McCoy holds a PhD in Christian Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary. She is part of The Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice...
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The Evolution and Spiritual Journey of Two Former Black Panther Party...
By Jones Dr Trevin Jones is an English Professor at St. Louis Community College. In his dissertation on African American prison writers, he explores how different African American male prison writers...
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Being Black Online: Civil Rights in the 21st Century [Video]
Big tech’s bias algorithms continue to reinforce the discrimination Black communities fought hard to outlaw in offline spaces. Legislation like the Algorithmic Accountability Act will take civil rights...
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An Antitrust Explainer: Why Big Tech Must Be Held Accountable [Video]
Color Of Change is launching our #BreakUpBigTech campaign. With all of the recent Facebook news, it’s urgent Congress pass antitrust reform. An outage at 1 company shouldn’t knock out 3 of the largest...
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The Fourth Wave of the Ku Klux Klan
At any previous peak of Klan activity, they were de-centralized. Soon after they were founded in 1865 in Tennessee, there were multiple groups, indistinguishable from each other; the Knights of the...
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Theatre Review: ‘Queens Girl in the World’
I’m always afraid of being the wrong me in the wrong place…Daddy’s always who he is, wherever he is. How do I do that!? — Jacqueline Marie Butler. That heartfelt question, balancing personal identity...
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Some White People Who Claim Proximity Actually Are Anti-Racist
I was accused of using proximity to claim not being racist. I’ve also seen it in responses to articles by other White people with Black husbands, wives, or children. And I get it. Claiming proximity...
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5 Reasons Banning Abortion Is Nothing Like Abolishing Slavery
It is one thing to oppose abortion. I can understand and respect that position, despite disagreeing with those who would restrict women’s bodily autonomy in deference to fetal life. But it’s quite...
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Will it Really Make Sense When We Grow Up?
This morning I was rooting about for something to write about for this week’s column and a cartoon from my favorite tiger and boy combo, Calvin and Hobbes popped up on my Facebook feed. Bill Watterson...
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