From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.
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Even when courts are provided with race-informed clinical assessments designed to contextualize trauma and systemic vulnerability, Black youth are still seen as a risk.
This year marks the 150th birthday of Colorado and is a chance to examine the state’s history.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh shared a vision of ‘beloved community’ that shows how democracy begins not with power, but with how we live together.
The policy of providing guaranteed cash incomes has gained momentum in recent years. This tool to tackle inequality has the potential to address racial resentment.
Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new visions for the country’s future.
From Charlie Kirk to Martin Luther King, martyrs are powerful tools for political movements, democratic and authoritarian.
In a polarized environment, the elevation of a figure into a saint does more than honor the individual. It turns a political struggle into a sacred one.
Donald Trump has a partisan ally running the FBI. He’s urged retribution against his perceived enemies. Will today’s FBI repeat the vast, unconstitutional persecutions of the J. Edgar Hoover era?
The key to civic coexistence might be learning to look out for neighbors even if we can’t stand them. No friendly feelings required.
A landmark 1964 Supreme Court ruling protects the press in lawsuits by public officials angry about how they’ve been covered. It’s being targeted by President Donald Trump.
A scholar who studies Spider-Man examines why the statement ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ resonates with viewers and inspires virtuous actions.
Martin Luther King Jr. popularized the term ‘beloved community’ and gave it his own meaning. But the still-cited phrase was coined decades before.
A former federal judge explains a key power the US attorney general has, and why it’s useful to the public for the Justice Department to operate in a trustworthy way.
In 1966, the assertion of Black power was grounded in an appeal to the founding principles of the United States. Black church leaders called for healing internal divisions through engagement.
As the Democratic National Convention returns to Chicago, there’s an appetite in that city to revisit films from the bloody and violent time the convention was last held in that city: 1968.
Sporting events form a vital space where Americans display their ‘civil religious devotion,’ according to a scholar of religion and sports.
By putting financial pressure on white businesses – often in a highly organized way – Black civil rights leaders achieved social change.
The secret recordings of two Supreme Court justices reveal dramatic differences in how they see American political life.
Lawson learned in India how to resist racism and subsequently trained his students on the systematic use of nonviolence to fight injustice.
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Professor of American History, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
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Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University
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Adjunct professor of Justice, Law and Criminology, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor of Geography and Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
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Professor of Homiletics, Howard University
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Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Princeton Theological Seminary
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Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Associate Research Professor, Political Science, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Bizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis
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Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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Professor in American Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of History, University of Dayton
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Assistant Professor of History and Community Engagement, St. John Fisher University
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