While awesome in their beauty, mountaintops are not any longer a pathway to the promised land. Not today, not in the world of inequality in which we live

The initiative is always taken by small groups, without taking into account the power balance, but rather the justice of their actions

There is ample evidence of activists around the nation celebrating King’s legacy in ways that expose ongoing racial and economic inequalities

We must never forget the full range of Dr. King’s vision, nor the full tragedy of the world he sought to heal, nor the revolutionary spirit which he saw as our only hope of achieving his vision

Number of years earlier, on average, that black women die than white women: 4.3

The roll call of U.S. sailors who say their health was devastated when they were irradiated while delivering humanitarian help near the stricken Fukushima nuke is continuing to soar.

One in three black men in America will go to prison during their lifetime

December 27 will be remembered as a black day in Okinawan history

Date on which President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty in the United States: 1/8/1964 Percent of Americans who were living…

For me, the Catholic Left was a way to take action that was appropriate to the urgency of what was happening in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos