Category: Color of Law

As a political and civil rights leader, he engaged in civil disobedience to bring about equal access for African-Americans on the Philadelphia trolley car system - a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, as part of the Montgomery Bus Boycott organized by Martin Luther King and others.

racial justice activism was dangerous, risky, life-threatening work when you were trying to change society and crazy angry white men were rolling up on you with guns and Lord knows what else. And very often, the armed vigilantes and the police were one and the same.

States consistently meet the one-to-one funding requirements for predominantly white 1862 land-grant colleges and often exceed them, even as they defund 1890 HBCUs in the same state.

Rustin believed that while he should obey the law, he was compelled to follow the will of God when the will of the state conflicted with God.

it’s not so wonderful when Black leaders channel that same kind of energy toward progressives who are fighting for the community or who accept contributions from special interests who are fighting against the interest of Black people.

pleading to America for equal, just and fair treatment has been an elusive proposition for African-Americans.

It had all the makings of a race riot, a lynching.

When children are taught certain things and conditioned in specific ways about history, society and culture, this is how practices, policies and institutions are perpetuated.

Children and adolescents with exposure to nature benefit from increased physical activity and fewer health problems, a more positive mood and emotions, and lower psychological stress.

In Nazi Germany, the enemies were LGBTQ people, trans books, Jews, political dissidents and others. Today in the U.S., there is the war on DEI (code for Black people), white replacement theory and the centering of white hetero cisgender Christian men.