Social Justice
The pursuit of a fair and equitable society in which all individuals have equal access regardless of race, gender, income, or background.
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July 26 … Executive Order 9981, signed by President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1948, was a landmark decision…
July 27 … Queen Mother Moore was a formidable Black nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and reparations advocate whose activism spanned much of…
July 28 … The Negro Silent Protest Parade of 1917 — commonly referred to as the Silent Parade or Silent…
July 30 … The New Orleans Massacre of 1866 was a violent confrontation in Louisiana during the early years of…
July 31 … Whitney Young was a pivotal American civil rights leader whose pragmatic vision and institutional strategy helped reshape…
August 1 … Chuck D is a pioneering rapper, producer, and activist whose work with the group Public Enemy redefined…
August … The Messenger magazine was a politically charged and later literary monthly that became a formative voice of Black…
August 10 … Anna Julia Cooper — born Anna Julia Hayward on August 10, 1858 — was an American author,…
August 11 … The Colored American (DC) of Washington, D.C. was one of the most influential African American newspapers of…
August 13 … Ibram X. Kendi is a prominent American historian, author, and public intellectual whose scholarship and advocacy have…