by Taylor King | May 30, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: TAYLOR KING Crowds of tourists buzz with excitement. From their perch on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument’s shadowed peak breaks through the evening sky, creating a halo of pastels and signaling the sun’s descent on the city. Year after...
by Takim Williams | Apr 26, 2017 | #InContext
By: TAKIM WILLIAMS Frederick Douglass was a well-respected abolitionist, social activist, orator, and statesman. Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, his story is one of overcoming oppression in order to pave the way for others to do the same. All three of his...
by Sutton Roach | Apr 6, 2017 | #InContext
By: SUTTON ROACH Karol J. Wojtyla, known as Saint Pope John Paul II, was raised in a small Polish town during the anti-Semitism period. A faithful Catholic, Karol rejected the segregation of Jews and took on a special love for the Jewish people, referring to them as...
by Takim Williams | Mar 29, 2017 | #InContext
By: TAKIM WILLIAMS The Cold War was in full swing when Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president of the United States for the second time. Soviet tanks had violently smothered Hungarian protesters months before the election, which Eisenhower mentions in his second...
by Takim Williams | Feb 8, 2017 | #InContext
The Selma to Montgomery March of 1965 occurred the year after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which did far less to improve the lives of oppressed African Americans than many of them had hoped. In King’s own words at the march, “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave Negroes...
