Steve Russell

The mythical narrative taught by the colonists is that progress is an inevitable march in one direction....

May 06, 2013
Steven Newcomb

On January 21, 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama took the oath office for the second time, reportedly placing his hand on the travel Bible of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A great many people will no doubt think it ironically fitting that President Obama invoked the memory of Dr....

February 12, 2013
Maya Angelou

The beauty of living to be my age and still having clear vision is that it allows me to look back and see how far we’ve come. Yet even if we live to be 100, we can scarcely perceive the magnitude of our progress as a country.

But North Carolina, I tell you: we have progressed....

October 15, 2012
Chris Stearns

On a sunny September day in New York City in 2007, the United Nations General Assembly gathered to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peo...

May 10, 2012
Winona LaDuke

This past week, I had the distinction of becoming one of a select list of authors banned by the Tucson United School D...

January 30, 2012
African Americans and American Indians can both tell tales of historical injustice—but to what extent do those tales overlap?...
On August 28, 1963 when more than 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for a massive civil rights march, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...