Tag: civil rights
The fight against school segregation began in South Carolina, long before...
Roy Jones, Clemson University
When it comes to the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme...
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to Supreme Court nomination was paved by...
Sharon D. Wright Austin, University of Florida
Just five women and two African Americans, both men, are among the...
Sidney Poitier – Hollywood’s first Black leading man reflected the civil...
Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis
In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of the...
How high school sports became the latest battleground over transgender rights
Elizabeth A. Sharrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst
This year, 20 states proposed to ban transgender girls – meaning those assigned male at birth but who...
How Joe Biden did so well in Georgia
Bev-Freda Jackson, American University School of Public Affairs
For nearly 30 years, the state of Georgia has voted reliably Republican in presidential elections. Not since...
Countries around the world are using border surveillance systems against their...
Keren Weitzberg, UCL
Hamdi was just an infant when his relatives first brought him to the Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya to be registered...
John Lewis traded the typical college experience for activism, arrests and...
Jelani M. Favors, Clayton State University
As an 18-year-old student attending a training session for activists at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, John...
Hip-hop is the soundtrack to Black Lives Matter protests, continuing a...
Tyina Steptoe, University of Arizona
The sound of Public Enemy’s 1989 song “Fight the Power” blared as face-masked protesters in Washington, D.C. broke into a...
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Income-based repayment becoming a costly solution to student loan debt
Robert Kelchen, Seton Hall University
When Congress established the income-driven repayment for federal student loans back in 2007, it was touted as a way to...
