Anaheim, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Problem of Escalating Violence

This past weekend has, once again, provided a sad example of the urgent need for civility – not as a means of policy negotiation or a form of politeness, but as an antidote to hatred and violence. This is what happened: last Saturday, at Pearson Park in Anaheim, California, members of the Ku Klux Klan…

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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Fifty Years of Civility in Civic Action

Yesterday marked the fiftieth anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in which, on August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 marchers converged on Washington D.C. to call for an end to discrimination and a legal pathway forward to racial equality.