New monument turns Rosa Parks’s booking number into warning on U.S. erasure
At the recently opened Montgomery Square in Alabama, bronze hands rise from the pavement, holding a placard against the sky. It reads 7053, the booking number displayed in Rosa Parks’s 1956 mugshot after she and other leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott were arrested.
Obama Center opens in Chicago with a call to defend democracy and a celebrity crowd
Former President Barack Obama formally opened his presidential center in Chicago on June 19, 2026, with a call to defend democracy as three former presidents joined him on stage in an extraordinary event featuring politicians, A-list celebrities, athletes, and other internationally known figures.
Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined it
The supreme court paved the way for racial discrimination in voting, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr and thousands of other movement leaders bled, marched and mobilized for Congress to outlaw it. This is a break-glass outcome for what was already a severely weakened Voting Rights Act (VRA), and it will reshape the future […]
