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This weekend, tune in to State of Belief to hear from civil rights activists working hard today to bring the promise of the 1963 March on Washington to fruition – even in the face of new threats and [...]

17-year-old civil rights activist Ruby Sales didn’t have time to think, that hot August day in 1965 in Fort Deposit, Alabama. She’d gone to buy sodas for fellow members of the Student Nonviolent [...]

As New York Civil Liberties Union Senior Staff Attorney Alexis Karteron tells us, the NYCLU isn’t against “Stop and Frisk” – it’s against the profiling and the subsequent damage to individuals and [...]

Over 70 years ago, a brave young woman was among the first African-Americans to defy threats from the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow-era literacy tests, and successfully register to vote in North Carolina. [...]