Today, July 28 marks 150 years since the 14th amendment to the constitution was ratified in 1868. For Blacks in America, this motion is groundbreaking towards achieving social equality in North America and overall civil rights history. The 14th Amendment targets and defines citizenship rights and establishes them through due process and equal protection rights. […]
A New Jersey man filed a lawsuit against the state on Thursday (May 17) in an attempt to force local officials to do away with de-facto segregation in schools. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The New York Times reported that Christian Estevez, who is Dominican, filed the lawsuit with the support of community groups, parents […]
Sixty-four years ago today, the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, holding that segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which says that no state may deny equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction. May 17th, 1954, marked a […]
Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information As the Civil Rights Movement mourned the loss of Linda Brown, Twitter wasn’t here for Mike Pence’s social media tribute. Linda Brown, the young student who was the center of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education passed away March 26th, 2018 at the age of 76. The judgement […]
