via NYSYLC Support Rosario, Sara and Janet’s courage by donating to their bail fund! Rosario, Sara and Janet’s arrest shows what it means to be a leader, to stand up for your community and your dreams. As Sara states, “I’m getting arrested is to show the urgency that Undocumented Youth face every day when they […]

By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center The radical right grew explosively in 2011, the third such dramatic expansion in as many years. The growth was fueled by superheated fears generated by economic dislocation, a proliferation of demonizing conspiracy theories, the changing racial makeup of America, and the prospect of four […]

On March 7th of 1965, a 22-year old John Lewis and several nonviolent civil rights marchers were just beginning a march in Alabama, from Selma to Montgomery, in support of voting rights, when they were tragically beaten, trampled and tear-gassed by Alabama State troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. John Lewis stood for equality then, […]

North Miami Senior High gained national attention Friday when more than 2600 students and teachers walked out of class in the biggest immigration protest in South Florida since 2004.Colombian sisters Daniela Pelaez, 18, and Dayana Pelaez, 24, were ordered by a judge to leave the country later this month after their request for a green […]