Civil Rights

Thumbs Up! Black and Jewish Teens Get It Together: Operation Understanding

In a year-long program sponsored by Operation Understanding/DC, a community-based cross-cultural group that promotes dialogue, leadership, and friendship between African Americans and Jews, teenagers from both groups in the Washington D.C., area are attending workshops, activities, and having fun together, as they forge better relationships, confront biases, and learn to trust one another.

Why I’m Marching on Sunday, October 30, 2005, In the Boston Re-enactment of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Civil Rights March

By MICHAEL JACOBY BROWN

There are no more “Colored Only” bathrooms and drinking fountains. But in many other ways, things are not so different. Our neighborhoods and schools are still separate and unequal.