Over the course of a year, we have witnessed a growing campaign of violence targeting citizens of Asian descent in America. Hate speech from the highest office in the land helped to cultivate such violence resulting in fatalities and propagating stereotypes that threatens to pervade generations.

The threat we witnessed at the United States Capitol today is not unprecedented. We will hear political figures indicate the disorder does not reflect American practice and values. We cannot afford to be apologetic in this moment or romanticize American history.

Glowing flaming crosses are just as American as glaring red rockets. Systemic racism and White supremacy are among our nation’s cornerstones.

Individuals from around the country can join the effort for record turnout in the runoffs.

Florida voters just approved a constitutional amendment to restore the right to vote to people with conviction histories. In Illinois, we already have that right but we don’t have access.

We grieve with and pray for those whose lives have been ripped apart by recent hateful acts of terror, but prayers are not enough.

The FICPFM network has a profound commitment to transform society by transforming the US criminal justice system. Help end the unjust policy of money bail.

President Donald Trump's administration has enacted an immoral immigration policy of separating parents and children at the U.S. border, and routinely denying asylum to victims of domestic abuse and gang violence.

In the years prior to King’s assassination, his sights began to shift towards thinking how a true Beloved Community might be realized in his present world. The pathway to this concept rested in need to escalate the concerns of civil rights, to a need for human rights. The words of his sermons and writings would begin to challenge even more, daring to make claims that poor Blacks and Poor Whites had more in common with each other, than Poor Blacks had with Rich Blacks or Poor Whites had with Rich Whites. Despite a system that systematically proved otherwise, dismantling poverty, King exclaimed, was the key to removing the systems of racism, militarism, and economic injustice on America.