civil-rights
What happens when laws that suppress protests clash with our freedoms? | Opinion
Americans have always held, as a matter of faith, that if they don’t like something, at least they have the freedom to raise hell about it.
Penn law professor faces evaluation by peers for ‘racist speech’
Professor Amy Wax has been accused of "disparaging immigrants, people of color, and women," according to Penn Law School's dean.
Kids charged in brutal Philadelphia murder still deserve due process | Michael Coard
The online lynch mobs already are baying for blood. There's a long and racist history of that happening.
What legislation did Gov. Tom Wolf approve or veto during budget season?
In a flurry of budget season legislation, Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed Republican-backed bills dealing with poll watchers, transgender athletes, and energy policy and approved laws on election funding, affordable housing and a loophole that can let people who commit serious crimes get away with a ticket.
Did the end of Roe open the door to the return of sodomy laws? | Analysis
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton want to bring back anti-gay sodomy laws.
The Niagara Movement, a precursor to NAACP, fought for economic and civil rights | Michael Coard
The Niagara Movement was right in rejecting an accommodationist approach and in advocating for economic wealth backed by intellectual, voting, and political power.
Embracing police accountability is the only way to make our communities safer | Opinion
Policymakers have yet to embrace a full transformation in public safety that we need to make all our communities safer and more just.
Celebrate Title IX’s anniversary, but keep working to fulfill its promise | Fletcher McClellan
Title IX advocates connect the skills and confidence women acquire in athletics to later professional success.
Hunger strike to protest solitary confinement at SWPa. prison continues | Friday Morning Coffee
Incarcerated people at the state prison in Greene County have been on strike since June 7.
When you say ‘that’s not us’ remember this historic tale of racial savagery | Michael Coard
The story of white racism in America is one of sociopathy, psychopathy, perversity, sadism, savagery and malice.
White supremacy and the post-Roe pregnancy-to-prison pipeline | Opinion
Women of color have warned for half a century of the racist result of anti-abortion laws.
Some 68 years after Brown v. Board, similar foes continue stubbornly fighting progress | Opinion
W.E.B. DuBois once said, 'Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.'