Kerry Kennedy

"Well-behaved women seldom make history." – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. As a woman-founded, woman-led organization, we know that women don’t just make history, they define it. To all the women who speak up, show up, and speak out, thank you. Happy Women’s History Month!

(3/3) A century after its conception, honoring Black history means teaching it, living it, and carrying its lessons forward every single day for the next hundred years and beyond.

(2/3) Started as “Negro History Week” in 1926 by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History cofounder Carter G. Woodson, Black History Month was officially recognized as a national observance in 1976.

(1/3) Black history is not just confined to 28 days in February. It is American history, alive in every corner of our country and woven into the fabric of what makes us a great nation.

(1/3) Under U.S. law, unaccompanied immigrant children are entitled to age-appropriate care while their cases move through the courts. But that’s not the reality.

(2/3) We have documented children being locked in adult ICE jails after being coerced into false confessions that they were adults, having their birth certificates destroyed, & being subjected to racially discriminatory pseudo-scientific age assessments.

No one is above the law.

Slavery exhibit removed by Trump administration is returning to Independence Mall in Philadelphia Federal workers are restoring an exhibit on the people once enslaved by President George Washington in Philadelphia despite an ongoing legal fight between the city and the Trump administration.

Black history is American history. It is powerful and courageous, but it is also complicated and painful. No president or administration can erase it. Teaching the full scope of our history challenges us to be better. Whitewashing history, on the other hand, fuels ignorance and excuses injustice.

John Lewis was my hero, my mentor, my friend. He spoke to my children, nieces, and nephews about Daddy not as a figure in a history book, but as his friend. He made history feel human. He made justice feel possible. And he helped our country live our values. Happy Heavenly Birthday, John.

A son of sharecroppers, a Freedom Rider, a moral force in Congress, John Lewis taught us that democracy is not a state, it is an act. When we see injustice, we do not look away. We get in good trouble. And we build bridges despite adversity. Happy Heavenly Birthday, Congressman.

(2/2) I think I speak for all of us at @kennedyhrc.bsky.social when I say we left that conversation ready to sprint to the voting booth and text every friend and family member we know to register to vote. Thank you María Teresa for joining us!

(1/2) Thank you to our incredible board member María Teresa Kumar for joining us at our 2026 retreat.

Mom with Helen Chavez, Cesar Chavez, and Jesse Jackson as Chavez breaks his last great fast.

“There are few areas in our law which more urgently demand reform than our present unfair system of choosing the immigrants we will allow to enter the United States... This nation was built by immigrants of courage and ability who came from many lands.” - Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

(2/2) I was honored to march with him across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and to fast alongside him in support of farm workers with Cesar Chavez.

Rest in hope, power, and love, Reverend.

(1/2) My condolences to the family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. He was a lifelong champion for justice, equality, and democracy, and a true friend. Wherever injustice raised its ugly head, Rev. Jackson showed up, and showed up, and showed up.

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I urge you to read and share this extraordinary interview.

The Iranian people are risking everything for their freedom. We must not look away.

(4/5) From funerals monitored by intelligence agents, to families extorted for the bodies of their murdered children, and prisoners inside Evin staging a haunting performance with body bags to honor the dead, this conversation is both devastating and defiant.

(3/5) Nasrin spent years on the frontlines of the struggle for women’s rights and democracy in Iran. She endured more than six years in prison for her work. Today, her husband, Reza Khandan, remains unjustly imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison for supporting her activism.

(2/5) In a powerful new Q&A, my friend and internationally acclaimed human rights lawyer and former political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh speaks with filmmaker Jeff Kaufman about the regime’s brutality and the human cost of repression.

What Iran’s Crackdown Looks Like From Inside: A Q&A With Nasrin Sotoudeh and Reza Khandan Mass protests and a deadly crackdown grip Iran: human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh from Tehran; her husband Reza Khandan from Evin Prison

(1/5) Last month, the people of Iran rose up in the largest nationwide protests since 1979. Thousands were killed. Tens of thousands more were arrested. Internet blackouts. Mass detentions. Families forced to search for their children among piles of bodies. And still, they refuse to be silent.

(1/6) The South Louisiana ICE Processing Center, run by the private prison giant GEO Group, is notorious for systemic abuse. In 2025, GEO reported $2.6 billion in revenue while deaths in detention reached their highest level in over two decades.

2025 measles cases highest since 1991 There were 2,144 confirmed cases in 2025, though this is likely a significant undercount. About 93% were among people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown.

Get your shots. Get your kids vaccinated. Do not risk their lives for non-science. The United States surpassed a milestone in reported measles cases, with 2025 now having the most cases since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, and the most cases in more than three decades.

The only thing more powerful than hate is love. Thank you Bad Bunny.

President and Mrs. Obama have always been the epitome of class, dignity, kindness, moral courage, and what true American leadership looks like.

Logan Airport passport control completely empty. Apparently few tourists, thanks to ICE.

(4/4) Support independent investigations, including the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Iran. Hold those responsible to account. And protect the people risking their lives to speak out.

@kennedyhrc.bsky.social stands with the people of Iran. History will remember who spoke out and who looked away.

(3/4) Though this crackdown is unprecedented in scale, it is the predictable result of decades of authoritarian rule built on surveillance, fear, and impunity. A system engineered to crush dissent before it can take root.

The United Nations and its member states must act NOW.

(2/4) Children as young as 14 have been dragged into detention. Families are left searching for loved ones whose whereabouts the state refuses to disclose. Meanwhile, Iranian authorities have severed communications across the country to conceal the scale of their crimes.

Iran’s Repression of Protesters Demands International Protection and Accountability - Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center The Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Center condemns the Iranian authorities’ violent repression of peaceful protests across the country since they started on December 28, 2025.

(1/4) Since December 28, peaceful protesters across #Iran have been met with bullets, mass arrests, and enforced disappearances. Security forces have fired into crowds, killing at least 6,800 people, though the true toll is likely far higher.