civil rights
Jews, the civil rights movement, Israel: hot topics in Open HIllel tour
July 24, 2015In each of the campuses where they refused Open Hillel's request that we vets be permitted to speak, the Open Hillel students arranged alternative campus venues.
Read moreOhioans protest as Kasich announces his campaign for presidency
July 24, 2015Ohioans fed up with John Kasich's pro-1 percent policies came out in droves to protest their governor as he announced his bid for the Republican nomination for president
Read moreJustice for Tamir Rice dealt legal blow ahead of civil rights conference
July 22, 2015An Ohio appeals court declined to force the arrest of the Cleveland police officers involved in the murder of 12-year old Tamir Rice.
Read moreToday in African-American history: Mary McLeod Bethune born in 1875
July 10, 2015She organized African American women in the South to vote despite the Jim Crow poll tax and other racist restrictions.
Read moreCharleston, the Republican right, and the lessons of Martin Luther King
July 8, 2015Few people are claiming that there was anything random or mysterious about the brutal murder of nine innocent African American people in Charleston.
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