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Black Lives Matter once unified America. Now its chapters are divided on progress.
Yahoo News· 11 months agoThree years removed from the groundswell of support for Black Lives Matter, many of the movement’s...
Black Lives Matter support plummets from 2020 peak: Report
Yahoo News via AOL· 12 months agoDuring the "summer of racial reckoning" in 2020, support for the Black Lives Matter movement reached...
Black leaders protest hiring of Hmong city staffer for St. Paul reparations commission
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFor months last year and the year before, a committee assembled by the St. Paul City Council...
The life and times of Roy Wilkins, a St. Paul native who was a civil rights champion
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe tall, lean Minnesotan known for his steady, genteel demeanor collaborated with — and butted heads with — Martin Luther King Jr. and W.E.B. Du Bois, and he earned his share of friends and ...
BLM activist jailed over fundraiser fraud ordered to repay just £1
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA Black Lives Matter activist who helped organise the protest that led to the toppling of Edward...
Queer community pushes back against treatment of LGBTQ+ students by Worcester Diocese
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWORCESTER - The announcement from the Worcester Diocese earlier this month of new school policies...
England-based BLM activist jailed for spending thousands on beauty products, new tech
theGrio via AOL· 7 months agoXahra Saleem, then known as Yvonne Maina, established a GoFundMe account in 2020, raising £32,344,...
Serena's example: Tennis icon's impact felt in Black America
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 2016, responding to the fatal police shootings of two Black men just a day apart, Serena Williams...
Readers and writers: St. Paul poet celebrates going viral and new Zelda Fitzgerald book
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“It’s all about St. Paul, Baby. It’s 651 all the way.” An ebullient Danny Klecko, never one to hold back his emotions, was jazzed that his poem “45 Minutes in Central Park” went viral after ...
With friends and foes on St. Paul’s Grand Avenue, new Billy’s on Grand fights to keep liquor license
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWes Spearman and Chuck Gilbert are experienced restaurant managers who say they’re trying to breathe badly needed night life into St. Paul’s storied Grand Avenue, which has suffered in recent ...