Wade Henderson, Esq.

One hundred years ago today, an unsung hero of the civil rights movement was born. Bayard Rustin's contributions to the world far outweighed his credits -- and his 100th birthday is an opportunity to appreciate how his lifelong fights for equality live on today.

Rustin was the key strategist in...

This week, we as civil rights and labor leaders are headed to the Hyundai shareholders meeting in Seoul, South Korea. We aren't going because we hold investments in Hyundai; we're going because Hyundai has a lot invested in the state of Alabama, and vice versa, and those investments are souring...

Last week's 47th commemoration of the Bloody Sunday March of 1965 marks a new phase in the civil rights movement. It represents a turning point for people from all backgrounds, who are joining together, not only to remember our shared past, but also to fight for a shared future. It's...

African Americans have long been targets of financial predators, but a new agency that will protect consumers has opened its doors. President Obama's nominee to head the agency has been a true champion for minorities -- but he will face an uphill battle to be confirmed after this week, when...

In 1968, sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee carried picket signs with four simple but powerful words: "I AM A Man." These workers -- African-American men in a segregated city -- held some of the most grueling, under-appreciated but essential jobs in our society: collecting their fellow citizens' garbage. On February...

Last year, Arizona set off a national firestorm when it passed SB 1070, legislation widely seen as unconstitutional and condemned for legitimizing racial profiling. The brand of politics that led to this law pushes all the buttons of a public legitimately frustrated with federal inaction on immigration. Sadly, it delivers...

I was born in the nation's capital about sixty years ago. For the first quarter of my life, I lived under legal segregation. There were restaurants where I couldn't eat, hotels where I couldn't sleep, and schools that I could not attend. Racial segregation was the long established law of...

At the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom, Dr. King noted that his march was not an end, but a beginning. He knew that it alone would not create the change that the country so desperately needed. His coalition of civil rights, religious groups, and labor organizations would go on...

Last year, I was part of an official U.S. delegation that met with members of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. President Obama had just given his groundbreaking speech in Cairo, where he declared that the U.S. respects Islam and is not at war with the entire Muslim world....

Like a manned mission to the moon, the nation's census requires painstaking planning, exacting execution, and a dedication to staying on schedule.

Among the endeavors dependent on an accurate census are the apportionment of the U.S. Congress and state legislatures, the disbursement of federal funds to states and localities,...

Rejecting the view that racial antagonism motivates some of his most overwrought opponents, President Obama has said that "anti-government" sentiment is more central to the protests against his policies.

Once again, the President has maintained his civility, while others have trouble maintaining the synapses between their mouths and their minds....