He doesn’t want anyone else to face the injustices that he and the rest of the Angola 3 suffered Albert Woodfox walked out of Louisiana’s St. Francisville jail in 2016 after serving more than 40 years in solitary confinement for a murder he says he didn’t ...
6 Mar 2020 - Adam Sennott
The congresswoman's People’s Justice Guarantee calls for decriminalizing poverty and homelessness Ayanna Pressley remembers running for reelection to the Boston City Council in 2011 when a constituent asked her what she was going to do about the home ...
29 Nov 2019 - Adam Sennott
Ben Ferencz continues to plead for world peace and justice seven decades after ‘the biggest murder trial in human history’ In 1947, Ben Ferencz prosecuted 22 Nazis for crimes against humanity in what The Associated Press called “the biggest murder trial i ...
30 Aug 2019 - Adam Sennott
His rhetoric is what 'I would have done, things I would have said,' says a former white supremacist In the early morning hours of July 14, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to lash out at four progressive congresswomen of color known as “Th ...
9 Aug 2019 - Adam Sennott
Ron Stallworth, the African-American detective who infiltrated the KKK in 1978, talks to Street Roots about his observations undercover In October 1978, Detective Ron Stallworth infiltrated the Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, making him the ...
26 Oct 2018 - Adam Sennott
The thousand in Pennsylvania are just 'the first wave,' says the attorney who helped the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team investigate clergy sex abuse When a Pennsylvania grand jury recently released its findings on child sex abuse in the Catholic ...
24 Aug 2018 - Adam Sennott
He fought for the Voting Rights Act. Now, he’s fighting to repair it. In March 1965, 24-year-old Jesse Jackson joined the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and hundreds of others as they marched on Selma, Ala., in protest of the state’s racist voting laws. Many ...
14 Jul 2017 - Adam Sennott
He was famous for defining literary journalism with his profiles of Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, but then he met a homeless woman near his house in East Manhattan The first encounter was on a cold Autumn afternoon in 1989. A woman carrying two bulky ba ...
4 Apr 2017 - Adam Sennott
The civil rights activist talks about holding ground under renewed threats to minority communities and police oversight On Jan. 19, the eve of the Presidential inauguration, the Rev. Al Sharpton stood outside Trump International Hotel in New York City wit ...
16 Mar 2017 - Adam Sennott
Though critical of the media’s sensationalism, the veteran journalist says the mainstream press isn’t to blame for the election of Trump. Instead, ‘go to the voters.’ In 1992, legendary journalist Carl Bernstein blasted the media for their obsession with ...
21 Dec 2016 - Adam Sennott