By Lee A. Daniels
Last week, during a ceremony saturated with pomp and circumstance and profound historical resonance, Carl E. Clark, a Navy veteran, was awarded a medal by the Secretary of the Navy for the kind of wartime devotion to duty – saving the lives of hundreds of his fellow sailors – Hollywood makes movies about.
January 23, 1941
Richard Wright is awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal.
January 24, 1985
Tom Bradley, four-term mayor of Los Angeles, receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for public service.
January 25, 1851
Abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth addresses the first Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
January 26, 1934
The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
Simply put, Carl Clark was and is a hero.
— , Secretary of the Navy
F.B.I. Arrests Four Connecticut Police Officers In Racial Harassment of Latino Residents
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By The Editors
The contentious relationship between the police force of a small Connecticut town and its Latino community reached a new stage Tuesday when the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested four of the town’s police officers and charged them with racially profiling and harassing Latinos.
The Downside of Bigger Down Payments: Locking Blacks Out of the Housing Market
By Deborah Siegel
A new study warns that a Federal proposal to require a minimum 20 percent down payment of prospective of prospective homebuyers would substantially hurt the chances of many African Americans and Latinos to get such mortgages.
LDF Successfully Defends Lower Court Ruling in Historic School Desegregation Case
On December 28, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit affirmed key aspects of the lower court’s decision in Little Rock School District v. Lorene Joshua. This long-standing school desegregation case involves key educational equity issues, including: racial disparities in school discipline, student achievement, access to advanced placement and honors curriculum and inequities in school facilities within three Arkansas school districts, the Little Rock School District, the North Little Rock School District and the Pulaski County School District.
The Quest for Peace and Justice: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
Romney’s Record on Diversity
By Kenneth J. Cooper
To the list of issues on which Mitt Romney has changed positions—gay rights, universal health care and abortion rights—add affirmative action, that byproduct of the civil rights movement.
Winter 2005: Donald L. Hollowell: 1917-2004
Donald L. Hollowell, a leading civil rights advocate in the state of Georgia during the 1950s and 1960s, died this past December of heart failure in Atlanta. He was 87 years old.
