As we head into 2015, it's important to remember how quickly progressive change that seemed radical at one time, becomes inevitable when enough people make a ruckus!

This year will be remembered as a turning point, when those in charge of the multibillion-dollar athletic-industrial complex saw their control over the levers of power slip in a decisive fashion.

Some protests are ignored and forgotten while others dominate the news cycle for weeks, becoming touchstones in political life.

These groups are already making a difference for women, victims of war, disease and violence — but they can do more with your help.

Watch video from the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the state of civil rights in response to the recent killings of unarmed black men by white police officers.

Activists are transforming outrage into community organizing projects, voter registration drives and mass protest campaigns.

If history is any guide, the protests against police brutality are just getting started.

Why would you believe the accounts given by eyewitnesses to Michael Brown’s slaying, but not believe the testimony of many women who say they were raped in the same way by the same man?

In an encore broadcast, journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "What clearly cannot be said is that violence—like nonviolence—sometimes works."