Autocrats or want-to-be autocrats always have at least one minority group to attack. We have seen this with politicians around the world throughout history and recently, including in the United States ...

We write this commentary to illuminate a profound injustice placed on Texas parents who seek to obtain guardianship of their profoundly intellectually disabled children who turn 18. When a profoundly ...

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” It is a dark day in American jurisprudence when we lose a ...

There was a time when the Supreme Court of the United States stood as a beacon of justice, a true representation of “We the People.” It was an institution that upheld our freedoms, protected our ...

Twenty-four years ago, a murder committed 50 feet from my front door changed lives forever. At 2:21 a.m. on an August night, four teenagers in a burgundy Toyota Camry pulled in front of an Isuzu Rodeo ...

In his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied ...

In 1964, the murders of three young civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., weren't considered a big deal in the rural Delta town or even in many parts of Mississippi, but across the nation and ...

This week, at least one campus in Utah joined the dozens across the nation that are engaging in a pro-Palestinian protest, proving wrong the Axios Salt Lake City article that claimed protests don’t ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, I find myself once again struck by the power of the African American experience. Black History Month celebrates the generations of African Americans who struggled ...

When asked to imagine the stereotypes associated with Texas, one might conjure images of barbecue, big trucks, and cowboys. But perhaps a more apt image would be that of injustice undergirding ...

Of the 31 states permitting execution, Alabama began issuing what would become the most death sentences in 1812, when Eli Norman was hung for murder. In 1927, electrocution replaced hanging. About two ...