Giving voice to all communities
Giving voice to all communities
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Christine King Farris was a founding board member of the nonprofit that Coretta Scott King started in 1968 in the wake of her husband's assassination.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that race-conscious admission policies of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Constitution.
Students, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, must be evaluated based on their experiences "as an individual — not on the basis of race."
There is a story in West Baltimore in the Upton neighborhood.
The Exonerated Five member won more than 50% of the primary vote for the District 9 city council seat.
The designations came about as part of the city's partnership with Getty to identify, protect and celebrate L.A.'s Black heritage
Yusef Salaam was one of the five teenagers wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in Central Park in 1989.
Zeneta Everhart became a voice against racism and gun violence last year after the shooting that left ten Black people dead.
The men say the Mississippi deputies beat them, sexually assaulted them and Tasered them repeatedly before one of them was shot in the mouth.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery is the author of "American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress." He joins "CBS Mornings" to share what he defines as "whitelash," how that backlash follows moments of racial progress and how he sees that cycle impacting the upcoming presidential election.
