Civil Rights

Some religious groups and religious liberty groups have applauded the commission including the Center for Family and Human Rights, a Catholic think tank.

In 1939, the editors spoke out against the Daughters of the American Revolution when the group tried to prevent Marian Anderson from performing in Constitution Hall. Anderson performed instead at the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of 75,000.

The Black Lives Matter movement has grown to become the first major racial justice movement in the United States since the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s.

During African-American History Month, we should embrace the radical Dr. King, who focused on the “triple American evils of racism, materialism and militarism.”

The new documentary ‘Hesburgh’ highlights stories of bridge building by the legendary university president

Karen J. Johnson focuses on the minority of white Catholics who felt that racial equality was a moral and religious, not merely political, issue.