by Taylor King | Jun 19, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
“Every year, we must remind successive generations that this event triggered a series of events that one by one defines the challenges and responsibilities of successive generations. That’s why we need [Juneteenth].” – Texas Representative Al Edwards By: TAYLOR KING...
by Taylor King | Aug 28, 2018 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
“I was born by the river in a little tent Oh and just like the river I’ve been running ev’r since It’s been a long time, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will” – Sam Cooke, March on Washington, August 28, 1963...
by Sarah Cramer | Aug 2, 2017 | #InContext
By: SARAH CRAMER Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. At a young age, Parks’ parents separated. She and her mother moved in with her mother’s parents, who were former slaves. From a young age, she witnessed her family serve as leading...
by Takim Williams | Apr 13, 2017 | #InContext
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma meaning “Great Soul,” was born in 1869 to an elite family in northwest India. Influenced by Jainism, his mother taught him the virtues of tolerance, non-violence, and simple living that would reappear later in his political...
by Takim Williams | Feb 22, 2017 | #InContext
“Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love feels like in private,” said Dr. Cornel West, Professor of Philosophy at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. The provocative black intellectual has...
