“I didn’t even know what I was doing was considered organizing until someone told me,” Johnetta “Netta” Elzie, a key Ferguson organizer, told the Atlantic.
New York Times columnist, Charles Blow, received the phone call he had always dreaded. His son was held by gunpoint on Yale’s campus.
On yesterday’s The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore got down to the bottom line: Â Bill Cosby is guilty.
Joseph Swink was returning home from an internship when he became caught in the middle of a high-speed chase.
The outrage surrounding MLK Day club parties is misplaced writes Tracy Clayton. Respectability politics won’t save us.
Vox has a good roundup of the Martin Luther King quotes that often go unheard.Â
The Supreme Court will take up the case of gay marriage.
“We must muster outrage over the routine dehumanization that happens in our criminal-justice system, rather than reserve it for the most extraordinary instances of injustice, if we are to maintain a movement for change,” writes Jonathan Rapping at the Nation.
“The state of Florida, it appears, is ground zero for the deaths of prisoners, and the crisis is so deeply corrupt and out of hand that it needs immediate national intervention,” writes Shaun King.
“Social networks are too fickle for activists to depend on for media attention,” writes Jenée Desmond-Harris at Vox.
High-achieving low-income students of color are being boxed out of CUNY, New York’s city colleges.
For the Guardian, Hannah Giorgis writes that online communities became her de-facto mental health support after she was failed by her university’s services.
