A protester holds a Black Lives Matter sign during a Juneteenth rally outside the Brooklyn Museum on June 19 in New York. (John Minchillo/AP) By. Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman Oct. 16, 2020 at 3:00 a.m. PDT When the Department of…
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By. Tim Craig September 3, 2020 at 2:57 p.m. PDT About 93 percent of the racial-justice protests that swept the United States this summer remained peaceful and nondestructive, according to a report released Thursday, with the violence and property damage that has dominated political discourse constituting only a minute portion of the thousands of demonstrations that…
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By Deryl Davis. November 15, 2018 In the course of his life as an activist, the Rev. James Lawson has endured racial epithets, accusations of anarchy, threats of physical violence, expulsion from a leading university, overnight lock-ups and months in prison. Now, the government which often opposed Lawson’s work for civil and human rights in decades past…
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