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By Kwasi Konadu, Colgate University and Clifford C. Campbell, Dartmouth College [first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one…
By Abubakarr Jalloh, Hollins University [this article first appeared in The Conversation; republished with permission] From the earliest days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has wrought a far higher toll in…
Wellstar Health System issued the following press release about its MLK Day celebration, and to announce that Wellstar has added MLK Day to its paid holiday schedule. Marietta, Ga.(January 17,…
By Sharon Austin, University of Florida [This article first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee,…
By Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] For the past 11 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director…
By Atinuke Adediran, Fordham University [This article first appeared in The Conversation. Used with permission] About 87% of nonprofit CEOs in the U.S. were white in 2019, down from 90%…
By Rebecca Gaunt Two Joseph Wheeler High School students joined a virtual panel Thursday, hosted jointly by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs,…
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced today in a press release that it has pledged $100 million over the next decade for non-partisan voter outreach, democracy advocacy, and civic…
December is Universal Human Rights Month, and the Cobb County Public Library has released a reading list on topics involving human rights. The library published the following description of the…
By Arielle Robinson A pair of local and longtime Cobb community activists say they would like to see the next round of federal funds from the 2021 American Rescue Plan…