All posts tagged "Martin luther"
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Trump Focuses On Blacks In Military For Black History Month Celebration
WASHINGTON (AP) â President Donald Trump is marking African American History Month by pledging to make real the vision of “every American patriot” who fought...
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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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âBlack Lives Matter Week Of Actionâ Observed At Schools Across The Nation
At least 25 school systems across the country are using the first full week of Black History Month to enlighten students about the fight for...
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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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Nichelle Nichols Didn’t Leave ‘Star Trek’ Thanks To Dr. King
When the 1960’s come to your head, you think about civil rights movement and the activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You think about his...
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Donald Trump’s ‘racist slur’ provokes outrage
‘Mr. President, are you a racist?’ US President Donald Trump has sparked outrage by reportedly using crude language to describe foreign countries in an Oval...
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Are Book Stores Hiding Gabrielle Union’s Book In The Back?
In a new interview with the New York Times, Gabrielle Union reveals that many bookstores are refusing to stock her New York Times bestseller We’re...
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Eight Songs By Black Women To Inspire Your Revolutionary Spirit
We are in scary times. Our president defends Neo-Nazis. The “Supreme Leader” of North Korea issues weekly threats. A tax bill is about to destroy...
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Companies Cut Ties With Tavis Smiley; He Responds To Allegations
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart and a book distributor distanced themselves from Tavis Smiley on Thursday after PBS said an investigation found “troubling allegations” of...
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Van Jones Gets His On Show On CNN In January
Civil rights advocate and former Obama administration advisor Van Jones is getting his own show on CNN called “The Van Jones Show.” Variety reports that...
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Jesmyn Ward & Others Win National Book Awards
NEW YORK (AP) — Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” a surreal and poetic novel about a struggling family in Mississippi, on Wednesday night won the...
