Stories That Inspire. Voices That Lead.

“Do you know who this is?” Kelli Edwards, the Center for Civil and Human Rights’s Program Manager, asked a group of young children circled around three tables. Kelli held up a coloring page of Malala Yousafzai. The kids squinted, trying

Rights Not Reserved is a podcast from the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. We discuss activism, history and today’s pressing human rights concerns with local, national and international leaders in civil and human rights. Episode 11 of Rights

Being a Black woman comes with many different perspectives and hardships, but I  never knew I would understand the feeling of pride. This disconnect with issues within the Black community came from my lack of association with Black people. In

Author of this blog post, Kelly Crosby, is a Gallery Assistant at the Center for Civil and Human Rights. What’s in a name? Apparently, everything. I’ve had many interesting conversations with visitors as a gallery assistant. One day, I was

Torrie Shepard is the Marketing and Communications intern at The National Center for Civil and Human Rights.  Standing Room Only is a weekly blog series that follows Torrie’s journey from bystander to upstander.  I was an engineering major at the

Sometimes the reality of history can feel unbelievable, not in a way that makes you question if past events truly happened, but how actual people lived and fought through them. This past semester, I took an African American History class. What we read in