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“A Republic, If You Can Keep It”: Press Freedom and the Risk of Authoritarian

Drift in America-

By Imam Nadim Sulaiman Ali

When Benjamin Franklin was asked at the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 what type of government the delegates had

created, he answered simply:

“A republic, if you can keep it.”

Franklin’s…

The inspiring attorney from ‘Just Mercy’— portrayed by Michael B. Jordan — is now expanding his building of sacred history sites in Montgomery, Alabama, to *protect* Black history.

Civil rights attorney and Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan…

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Leaders Of The Resistance

We Will Never Forget You…

We are honored to welcome Imam Dr. Khalil Abdur-Rashid—Harvard University’s first full-time Muslim Chaplain, instructor at Harvard Divinity School, and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School—for a powerful conversation on his new book:



Malcolm X and Indigenizing Islam in…

(NewsNation) — A disabled woman on her way to a medical appointment who was dragged out of her car by federal immigration officers says she feels “lucky to be alive.”…

Darnella Frazier, the teenage girl who whipped out her cell phone and recorded the police murder of George Floyd last summer, a video that rocked the nation, has received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for her courage.  …

Malika Bilal (Arabic: مليكة بلال) is a broadcast journalist currently working for Al Jazeera English.…

Georgia Fort is an independent, Emmy-winning journalist and media entrepreneur based in the Twin Cities who focuses on race, policing, and social justice, and who was recently arrested after filming an anti-ICE protest at a St. Paul church.



Fort is a three-time Midwest Emmy Award-winning journalist, and…

In April 1960, a fifty-six-year-old woman stood at a podium in a crowded chapel at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and quietly changed the course of American history.

The students packed into those pews had just come from lunch counter sit-ins across the South. Some had been beaten.…

Contributed by the REDI team in collaboration with Dr. Neila Miled, DEI Director, PHSA

February 1st marks World Hijab Day, which serves as an opportunity to foster understanding, promote…

Imam Jamil al-Amin (RHM) passed away on November 25, 2025 at the age of 82, leaving behind an illustrious legacy of

social activism and advocacy for Islam and Americans of African descent. Imam Muhammad Jaaber contextualizes the work of Imam Jamil al-Amin within the political environment of post-Civil Rights…

We are living through what Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. calls a "season of destruction," a deliberate era where the legacy of the freedom movement is being erased. In this riveting dialogue, Glaude and Dr. Imani Perry do not just lament the state of the nation; they dissect the very…