As Atlanta continues to serve as the backdrop for a historic civil rights movement past and present, attorneys gather to host the first downtown civil rights and criminal justice summit.The conference, hosted by The…
As the organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Bob Moses traveled to the most dangerous parts of Mississippi to help African Americans end segregation and secure the right to vote. But it wasn't until…
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE) - Bill Himpler, President and CEO of the American Financial Services Association (AFSA), speaking before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Development Committee today in a hearing titled “Protecting…
Note: Lifestyle Editor Ken Abrams prepared this piece at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2015. We're releasing an edited version again today as the 2021 festival comes to an end.Daily headlines remind us that the nation…
By Hasan Kwame JeffriesAs the organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Bob Moses traveled to the most dangerous parts of Mississippi to help African Americans end…
By David Mark GreavesSimone BilesWhat a class act champ Simone Biles is. She made her jump and then went with a thoughtful look to her coaches and then to her teammates. She hugs them all and we hear them say, “I love you. This…
President Joe Biden makes remarks at an Independence Day celebration in Washington, DC July 4, 2021 at the White House. (Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters)
Yesterday, President Biden announced that all…
Last year our nation lost civil rights activists John Lewis, CT Vivian, Bruce Boynton, Joseph Lowery, and most recently Bob Moses. These are just a few of the legion of courageous personalities who advocated the right and the risk decades…