civil rights
NAACP wants to pass torch to a new generation
McClatchy Newspapers – Social media, they had down. Social justice, that was another matter. For 29 high-school students of all backgrounds who gathered last month at a leadership camp addressing “social justice issues,” the phrase meant different things to different youth or, to most, nothing at all. Equal opportunity, they understood. Dissent, they shared with [...]
Nothing Unique About It
Gwen Ifill, Time – The first time I ever used the term post-civil rights to describe the new generation of African-American politicians I was studying, the Rev. Joseph Lowery hollered at me. He wanted to know, What in the devil does that mean? I have to admit that I had no good answer for the [...]
