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Nothing good came of Jim Crow
Las Vegas Sun· 1 day agoRep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., speaks before introducing Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at the Black Conservative...
Virginia NAACP sues school board for reinstating Confederate names
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoThe Virginia NAACP sued a county school board Tuesday over its reinstatement of Confederate military...
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution· 19 hours agoThis misbegotten master plan from the Bush administration requires turning kids into answer boxes and constantly testing them. It would have taken a...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
WKBN 27 Youngstown· 4 days agoLawson was a close adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who called him “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.”
British journalist, 97, was eyewitness to U.S. history - Addison Independent
The Addison County Independent· 16 hours agoAt age 97, Joyce Egginton is finally able to relax after decades of writing on deadline for myriad...
Granderson: Praising the Jim Crow era? That's a red flag
Los Angeles Times· 3 days agoJim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B....
LZ Granderson: Praising the Jim Crow era? That's a red flag
Greensboro News & Record· 24 hours agoJim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the Electoral College but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump ...
DAVID SHRIBMAN: Two presidential candidates, mired in the past
Goshen News· 17 hours agoOne candidate worried about the country being a “house divided” by slavery but saw a future where...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 4 days agoThe two Black pastors — both 28 years old — quickly bonded over their enthusiasm for the Indian...