The world’s first monument to transgender activists, announced Wednesday in New York City, will pay tribute to two women of color, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, for their roles in leading the gay rights movement. The permanent installation will be on display in […]
Voting rights activist and Deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson died at the hands of an Alabama State Trooper on February 26, 1965, which inspired the first of the SCLC marches in Selma. It would take 42 years before his family saw justice. Jackson was born December […]
By Ryan Velez In the wake of the controversy surrounding the use of Confederate iconography in public spaces across the South, a man became a viral hero after seizing a Confederate flag from a protestor. Now, the man, Black Lives Matter activist Muhiyidin Elamin Moye […]