The Lake County Sheriff’s candidates addressed how they would approach reining in spending of commissary funding, cooperating with ICE under current state law, and overcrowding in the jail amid a ...

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson faces GOP pressure over her past SPLC ties after the group was indicted on ...

What organizations, what movements, what rainbow coalitions, will be the bridges over the most troubling waters in the history of American democracy?

From Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge to Greensboro’s historic lunch counter, America’s civil rights landmarks tell stories of courage, sacrifice, and hope. Visiting these sites offers a powerful ...

The Symphony Orchestra's 'Rise' concert on April 27 honors civil rights, from and the Selma marches to the Voting Rights Act.

Wells’ investigations of lynchings to the citizen journalism of a teenager who recorded George Floyd’s final moments, these ...

On the final day of the Power Rising Summit in Chicago, Harris talked about her listening tour across the South and urged ...

This quote calls to action that frames voting not just as a civic duty, but as a form of non-violent resistance and a ...

The organization the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. made into a national force for economic and racial justice has new leadership: ...

Robert Koehler is a Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com.

At a moment when the language of protest feels once again urgent, Mosaic Theater’s newest original work from Playwright-in-Residence Psalmayene 24, YOUNG John Lewis: PRODIGY OF PROTEST, delivers a ...

A street corner on Detroit's west side now bears the name of a lesser-known civil rights activist whose work during the Selma Voting Rights Marches cost her her life. City and state officials on ...