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'We stand on LGBT History here,' Ohio City's West 29th Street celebrated and honored during Pride...
News Channel 5 Cleveland· 2 hours agoNews 5 continues to highlight the stories and culture behind Pride Month. Ohio City played an instrumental role in the community, and it's even been recognized as a historic landmark by the ...
Opinion | Who is Juneteenth really for?
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoJuneteenth is an official holiday first held to mark the close of slavery after the Civil War in Texas, but the George Floyd protests made it mainstream.
Florida Republicans terrorized a teacher because of a Black Lives Matter flag. She hit back and won
Salon via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoBut that is exactly what happened in much of the state. Educational programs about the civil rights...
John McGuire declares victory in too-close-to-call race over Virginia Congressman Bob Good
CBS 6 Richmond· 3 hours agoJohn McGuire, an opponent endorsed by former President Donald Trump, in Virginia’s primary election Tuesday. Good, who chairs the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, is seeking ...
Why Wikipedia just labeled a top Jewish civil rights organization ‘unreliable’ on the...
The Independent US via AOL· 8 hours agoThe editors of Wikipedia have concluded that the Anti-Defamation League, the premier Jewish civil...
Civil Rights History: Remembering the Monson Motor Lodge Protest 60 years later
WJAX via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoToday, city leaders will honor a pivotal moment in American history that happened right in St. Augustine. In 1964, African American civil rights activists ...
Legacy of the Negro Leagues to live on during MLB game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 2 hours ago“You were afraid when you got stopped by the police, so the players told me what to do,’’ Teasley said. “They told me you’re going to get stopped, and you better say the right
Gateway - Jalopnik
Jalopnik· 18 hours agoHarry Belafonte, folk singer and civil rights activist, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure in his home in Manhattan at 96 years old. Not only was Belafonte a groundbreaking ...
Friendship 9’s John Gaines dies at 83. SC civil rights group pioneered ‘jail, no bail’
The State via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSouth Carolina civil rights legend John Alexander Gaines, who spent a month in the York County jail...
How Nashville's Southern Student Organizing Committee was inspired to broaden Civil Rights Movement
Gannett via AOL· 4 days agoIn 1964, student activists at Scarritt College in Nashville formed one of the many civil rights groups that pushed for equality and racial justice. The group, called the Southern ...