by Kelli Ross | Aug 28, 2020 | #InContext
By: KELLI L. ROSS 2020 has been marked with a renewed racial reckoning in the United States. It has also been a year in which leaders of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s have passed, including John Lewis, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, and Charles...
by Kelli Ross | Jul 24, 2020 | #InContext
By: KELLI L. ROSS On Friday, July 17, 2020, Congressman and Civil Rights Leader John Robert Lewis passed away at the age of 80. In December 2019, he announced he had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Both Lewis and fellow civil rights activist Rev. C.T. Vivian died on the...
by Taylor King | Jun 19, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
“Every year, we must remind successive generations that this event triggered a series of events that one by one defines the challenges and responsibilities of successive generations. That’s why we need [Juneteenth].” – Texas Representative Al Edwards By: TAYLOR KING...
by Taylor King | Aug 28, 2018 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
“I was born by the river in a little tent Oh and just like the river I’ve been running ev’r since It’s been a long time, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will” – Sam Cooke, March on Washington, August 28, 1963...
by Rachel Hews | Jun 27, 2018 | #InContext
By: RACHEL HEWS On April 12, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. was sent to a Birmingham, Alabama, jail, where he would spend the following eight days. The cause? Protesting without a permit. At the time, King had been leading the Civil Rights Movement for nearly a decade,...
