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Seattle community honors teen victim as city leaders urge swift action on gun violence
KCPQ via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe community came together Friday at Martin Luther King Jr. Park to honor the memory of a 17-year-old who ...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
San Francisco Chronicle· 13 hours agoEds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. Lawson is best known for piloting two crucial civil rights campaigns – one in Nashville in 1960 and the other in Memphis in ...
Civil rights leader, Uniontown native the Rev. James Lawson Jr. dies at 95
Observer-Reporter· 2 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
“It’s Time for a Resurrection, Not an Insurrection” | Washington Monthly
Washington Monthly· 3 days agoOn June 19, 1968, less than three months after the assassination of her husband, Coretta Scott King...
Events throughout the week mark Juneteenth 2024 in the Quad-Cities
Quad-City Times· 14 hours agoJuneteenth is a federal holiday commemorating when, on June 19, 1865, the Union Army arrived in...
What are Americans paying for in Gaza?
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoWhich is not to say support from U.S. taxpayers. A March poll indicated a majority of Americans disapprove of what Israel is doing in Gaza. But that...
Big Banks Are Helping Big Oil Kill the Planet
Newsweek· 2 days agoTo say climate scientists are being ignored is an understatement. The planet is sliding past 1.5 degrees Celsius of heating. Heat waves and crop failures...
On This Day in History - June 13th - Almanac - UPI.com
UPI· 19 hours agoOn June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of former football star O.J. Simpson, and her...
The Worst Years in History (Yes, Worse Than 2020 and 2021)
Cheapism via AOL· 6 days agoThis was the year that most of the historians consulted chose as the one "likely to have been the...
More community involvement one of many steps needed to reduce gun violence in Fort Pierce
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoRemember how difficult it was for police to get information about a shooting on Martin Luther King...
