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Alabama lost a humble, legendary genius on Christmas Eve. Willie Ruff is his name.

Gray played a crucial role in many of the biggest moments in civil rights history.

Gray is perhaps the Civil Rights Movement's most successful and important attorney.

Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC, Rev. Joseph E. Lowery died on March 27, 2020.  He and his clerical brother, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. envisaged SCLC as the national platform needed to inveigh segregation, materialism, and militarism in the South and nation. King became the first SCLC president in 1957, a position … Continued

Growing up in Alabama, pictures from the Civil Rights Era were an almost daily part of life.  Hardly a day in school went by without a picture of a famous civil rights icon or some famous event finding its way into a lesson. And it seemed no matter where you went in the state, there … Continued

Here’s what’s substantially missing in most of the talk surrounding the young white teens from Northern Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School accused of mocking a Native American leader in Washington, D.C., this week after they attended a pro-life march: The red MAGA hats. It is true — these are really only boys, albeit, privileged white … Continued

Dozens of leaders from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights advocacy group in the U.S., will join other prominent national civil rights and government leaders at the opening of the Memorial for Peace and Justice on Thursday. The Memorial for Peace and Justice is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the … Continued