The early months of summer on college campuses are usually bustling with proud parents ready to celebrate students’ years-long efforts to obtain a college degree. Faced with student protestors’ ...
The concept of civil disobedience, defined as the peaceful refusal to follow a particular law, is most often associated with its greatest practitioner, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But it’s an old ...
Henry David Thoreau was born on this day 200 years ago. A few decades later, aged 32, he wrote an essay that fundamentally influenced twentieth-century protest. "Civil Disobedience," originally titled ...
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. "I know a lot of people are scared. We've got the FBI patrolling the streets. We've got National Guard set up as a show of force. What's scarier is if ...