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Weekly Reflection: Brown at 70 – Celebrate and Lament

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that declared racial segregation in public education unconstitutional. Many historians consider this to be the start of the modern Civil Rights Movement. After hundreds of years...

Weekly Reflection: Terrorism on Mother’s Day

  This Sunday is Mother's Day. It is a time to honor and remember the nurturing love of our mother or mother figure. But Mother's Day 1961 went down in history for a much different reason. On May 14 an act of racial terror took place on the outskirts of Anniston,...

Weekly Reflection: The Right to Protest for Right

The protests about the Israel-Gaza war on college campuses around the country continue to be a major story covered by a wide variety of media sources. Most of these stories focus on scenes of verbal and physical violence. The overall impression is that most protesters...

Compromising Freedom

Sometimes lesser known parts of our nation's history have major impacts on the legacy of racial injustice today. One such event happened 147 years ago this week when federal troops were removed from the state house in Louisiana on April 24, 1877. This marked the final...

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