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Civil Rights Act marks 60th anniversary as law of land
Twin States News· 9 hours agoThis year marks six decades since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 years was signed into law. President...
Joy Reid Confronts Byron Donalds Over ‘Jim Crow’ Comment
The Daily Beast· 1 day agoDonalds, at a campaign event in Philadelphia on Tuesday, had said that “the Black family was...
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries slams GOP congressman who said Blacks were better off under Jim Crow ...
New York Daily News· 2 days agoRep. Hakeem Jeffries ripped a fellow congressman for suggesting that Black people were better off...
A Black photographer added himself to places where history didn’t want him | CNN
CNN.com· 20 hours agoConceived by British photographer Lee Shulman and Senegalese self-portraitist Diop, the series sees...
‘Voice for equality and justice’ in Birmingham civil rights movement dead at 82
Birmingham News· 2 days agoCivil rights activist Myrna Carter Jackson, who was twice arrested during marches in 1963 in the...
Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech in its entirety
Mountain View Telegraph· 5 days agoCivil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial in...
‘A great man’: KCK bids fond farewell to civil rights activist, historian Chester Owens
The Kansas City Star· 10 hours agoAfter 78 years in Kansas City, Kansas, locally renowned civil rights activist and historian Chester C. Owens Jr. is moving away. Before he does, though, the Unified Government ...
Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday' Changed the Course of History
Time via Yahoo News· 1 day agoTeachers are made to fear introducing students to themes of slavery, segregation, and racial...
Dem leader Jeffries condemns ‘ignorant’ Byron Donalds for saying Black people were better off under...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJohnson and federal programs. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, and is credited...
Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan, The Great Dissenter
The Chattanoogan· 8 hours agoIn respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil ...