The Campaign of the Poor: a national call for a moral renaissance
This April 4 marks 56 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King, an immortal icon of the nonviolent struggle against discrimination and for
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This April 4 marks 56 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King, an immortal icon of the nonviolent struggle against discrimination and for
The onslaught of racial backlash is rooted in an ongoing battle between Reconstructionist supporters of multiracial democracy and Redemptionist supporters of white supremacy and the Lost Cause. The struggle is how to win the narrative war for the nation’s soul.
Justice Center of Rensselaer County board members are paying tribute to the group’s late co-founder, with a lecture from a leading scholar on racial inequity
When Nathan Connolly and his wife, Shani Mott, saw that their home in Baltimore had been appraised at $472,000, they knew something was wrong. They had bought it four years earlier, in 2017, for $450,000. They had made $40,000 in renovations. Home prices had been rising throughout the pandemic. It just didn't make sense. So a few months after that first appraisal, they applied to refinance again with another company and decided to try something different. This time, the African American family removed all the photographs of themselves and had a white colleague meet the appraiser. The second ap...