All posts tagged "civil rights"
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New Rachel Dolezal Documentary Hits A Raw Nerve On Her Identity
Rachel Dolezal By now Rachel Dolezal has become a household name in African-American families and not for a good reason. The former civil rights...
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Rosa Parks’ House Exhibit Cancelled By Brown University
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) â Brown University has canceled plans to display the house where Rosa Parks lived for a time after she left the south...
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‘Bloody Sunday’ Remembered In Selma
SELMA, Ala. (AP) â Several members of Congress joined civil rights activists and others Sunday afternoon for the annual commemoration of a day of racial...
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Myrtle Beach Sued For Discrimination Over Black Bike Week
The National NAACP, the Myrtle Beach Branch of the NAACP and three individuals filed a complaint and motion for preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court for the District...
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Oprah Winfrey Says Florida Students Are Like Civil Rights Pioneers
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has nothing but praise for the Florida school shooting survivors who have channeled angst into activism, calling them “warriors...
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Thousands Pay Respects To Billy Graham
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) â Thousands of people from all walks of life filed slowly past the casket of the Rev. Billy Graham on Monday to...
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Rep. John Lewis To Be Honored At Civil Rights Museum
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) â The first time John Lewis traveled to Mississippi in 1961, he was arrested and jailed with other Freedom Riders, black...
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Billy Graham: Influential US evangelist dies at 99
RIP: Rev. Billy Graham! Evangelist Billy Graham – among the best important ministers from the 20th Century – has actually passed away aged 99. Graham...
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Isaiah Washington Reveals The True Figures Behind The Civil Rights Movement
Most everyone knows of Rosa Parks and her role in the fight for equality when she refused to get up from her seat to give...
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Someone In The Trump Administration Let A Typo Of Frederick Douglassâ Last Name Go Unnoticed
Source: Photo 12 / Getty Get Trumpâs people a Google account. For the second time in a year, the Trump administration has used Black...
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Are African-Americans Losing Ground Since The King Era?
(THE CONVERSATION) On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. That was almost 50...
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Education Department Investigates Civil Rights Complaint In Iowa School District
The U.S. Department of Education launched a civil rights investigation of an Iowa school district after Black students complained of being discriminated against. Many in...
