It’s a big year for the Supreme Court. In addition to taking on abortion and gun laws, the justices just added another high stakes case to its docket: racial preferences in college admissions. The court will jointly consider a pair of lawsuits filed by Students for Fair Admissions. The group argues that Harvard University and […]
Racist attacks against Jews in America are disturbingly high, yet they get little attention, despite society’s heightened sensitivity to racism. Anti-Jewish sentiment is particularly rife on college campuses, where staff hired to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, often promote antisemitic attitudes. In terms of hate crimes, the FBI’s most recent statistics will probably surprise a […]
MINNEAPOLIS—Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin appears to be on the verge of pleading guilty to violating George Floyd ‘s civil rights, a move that would remove him from a federal trial but could significantly increase the amount of time he’ll spend behind bars. A notice sent out Monday by the court’s electronic filing system […]
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of police in two cases in which plaintiffs argued that officers used excessive force, overturning lower court rulings that allowed law enforcement to be sued over civil rights complaints.
“Critical race theory isn’t so much a thing as a way of looking at a thing,” Kimberlé Crenshaw assured MSNBC host Joy Reid last month. Crenshaw is a law professor at UCLA who, as a law student at Harvard, was one of the founders of critical race theory in the 1980s. The cable news segment—headlined […]
When did the civil rights movement go off the rails? The answer is when proponents went from justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. As to exactly when this occurred, that’s more difficult to answer. But consider statements, made five years apart, from the Kennedy brothers, John F. and Robert F. Neither brother […]
ATLANTA—Vernon Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing himself as a Washington insider and corporate influencer, has died, according to a statement from his daughter. He was 85. “My father passed away last night around 10 pm surrounded by loved ones his wife […]
Over half a century ago, an American Baptist minister from Georgia became one of the most important figures in U.S. history. People from across the country came together to honor the civil rights leader and his legacy. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights movement to successfully call for the end of racial segregation. […]
SELMA, Ala.—The body of civil rights icon John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, decades after his “Bloody Sunday” beating there drew a national spotlight to the struggle for racial equality. A military honor guard carried his American flag-draped casket from Brown Chapel AME Church to a horse-drawn carriage, which crossed the rose-petal […]
