Social Justice

NPR spoke to 11 girl activists during the (virtual) 2020 Girl Up Leadership Summit last week.

The president suggested he wanted to see what’s happening in Portland spread to other U.S. cities.

The demonstration, which will move from Center City to North Philly, is a call to action aimed at city leaders and residents.

Proposed ideas include renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of the late congressman and passing expanded voting rights legislation in his name.

Lawyers for Breonna Taylor’s family have tied her murder by police to a West Louisville revitalization plan. The allegations resonate in Philadelphia.

Experts say the collective bargaining agreements can stand in the way of accountability, even when the federal government is overseeing an agency through a consent decree.

“He didn’t have to stand with us, he chose to," said Malkia Devich Cyril, the founder and senior fellow of MediaJustice. "That’s real leadership.”

About 30 protesters rallied to take down what they called “a monument to state violence.” W. Wilson Goode Sr. was mayor during the 1985 MOVE bombing.

His passing comes after disclosing a pancreatic cancer diagnosis in December. Before his death, he was the last surviving member of the “Big Six” civil rights activists.

The activist group behind the message is trying to change the narrative around “I Can’t Breathe.”

John Lewis was the last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said the restraint was "reasonable."

C.T. Vivian's civil rights work stretched back more than six decades, to his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Ill.

The George Floyd protests are changing workplace culture — even workplaces that get little attention. The story of a suburban Chick-fil-A shows how.

A group is camped out at Philadelphia Housing Authority headquarters. They say they will picket the CEO’s house until he meets with them in person.