Oct 16 Free speech, and what came after By Spencer Michels Fifty years ago this month, long before the Vietnam War, students on the U.C. Berkeley campus ignited protests over a ban on political activity -- a student movement that would morph into the huge, confrontational demonstrations of the early 1970s… Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch Remembering Lady Bird Johnson's whistle-stop tour for civil rights By PBS News Hour Fifty years ago, in October 1964, less than a month before the presidential elections, Lady Bird Johnson boarded a train in Washington to stump through eight Southern states -- a gamble to help win back disaffected voters after the passage… Continue watching
Sep 25 Watch Understanding Eric Holder's legacy for the Justice Department By PBS News Hour After six years as head of the Department of Justice, Eric Holder, the nation’s first African-American attorney general, will be stepping down. Holder has focused on major civil liberties issues, but has also been a lightning rod for partisan criticism. Continue watching
Sep 06 Texas housing bias suit may make it to Supreme Court By Sam Hananel, Associated Press The Supreme Court could decide as early as this month whether to take up yet another case challenging so-called "disparate impact" lawsuits. In disparate impact cases, plaintiffs rely on statistics to show that seemingly neutral housing or lending practices can… Continue reading
Sep 04 Justice Department launches civil rights probe into Ferguson police practices By Eric Tucker, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Justice Department plans to open a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department following the shooting last month of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer in the St. Continue reading
Aug 12 Watch Family of slain Missouri teen calls for calm after protest violence By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 08 Watch Need persists for new generation of Freedom Schools, 50 years after first summer By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 05 Watch Turning a narrative of struggle into success story in Africa By PBS News Hour President Obama announced billions of dollars in new public and private investment in Africa’s rapidly growing markets -- on everything from construction to banking to clean energy infrastructure -- at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington. Gwen Ifill talks to… Continue watching
Aug 04 Watch How human rights issues factor into African economic advancement By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 24 Twitter Chat: Should homelessness be a crime? By Nora Daly A new report released last week by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty observed an increase in laws targeting the homeless, such as bans on loitering, sitting and sleeping in public. Join us in a Twitter chat on… Continue reading