Take a look at these videos from the Justice for Kyam Livingston Emergency Rally and March that took place on September 21st, 2016 at in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal
Civil Rights articles on Democracy Chronicles
Here you can find the latest news on civil rights as they pertain to democratic rights. Protecting individual freedom from infringement by governments is key to democratic progress. Across the world, these basic rights are too often in doubt. Also see our section on American democracy and our articles on the Civil Rights Era in the United States.
On the Responsibilities of Citizenship
Our predecessors had to forsake their own countries. They left other safe harbors as well because they thought no one could ever offer them a better chance at safeguarding their liberties as this one true nation, yet that privilege now seems elusive.
Philippines Threatens to Leave UN over Criticism of Drug Policy
Duterte should rethink the extrajudicial killings and allow for a system of law and order to rule his country and give even the worst of people the right to a fair trial
New Video Reveals Systematic Zimbabwe Police Brutality
Video of a tear gas attack on a commuter bus is a reminder of Zimbabwe police brutality
PHOTOS: Activist NYPD Officer Edwin Raymond Promoted to Sergeant
The auditorium at 1 Police Plaza was bustling yesterday as the promotional ceremony was getting underway for hundreds of officers being promoted to Detective and Sergeant including NYPD reformer Edwin Raymond
Emmett Till Law to Investigate Decades Old Civil Rights Abuse
House passage of the Emmett Till law would launch investigations into civil rights era deaths
The Justice of the Immigration Court and the Power of its Judge King
These refugees are fleeing for their lives; they are not economic refugees, as the immigration courts so often want to make everyone believe, or as many judges delude themselves into thinking.
PHOTOS: Black Lives Matter Philly March at DNC
African Americans, Caucasian, Asians, Palestinians, people of all ethnicities, backgrounds and ages came out to show support for what has been happening to mostly young black males who have been gunned down by police
The Enduring Impact of the Song ‘We Shall Overcome’
The patchwork hymn ‘We Shall Overcome’ endures to this day as a symbol of African-American pride
The Answer Is Never Violence
Attorney General Loretta Lynch on July 8, 2016 said about the shooting of police officers in Dallas: “The answer is never violence.” I totally agree with the Attorney General.