This Black History Month, the leaders of the past can teach real resistance
Nearly 60 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr posed a question that still haunts us. In his final book, published just a year before his death, ‘Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?’, he argued that we were standing at a crossroads: one path leading toward chaos—deepening poverty, violence, and repression—while the other […]
The life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops
Claudette Colvin, who died in a hospice in Texas, did her job while she was here on the planet, although it was several decades before her physical and material sacrifice was acknowledged. On March 2, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, aged just 15, Colvin took a stand and refused to give up her bus seat to […]