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‘Mormon Land’: The case for a group dedicated to protecting Latter-day Saint civil rights
The Salt Lake Tribune· 10 hours agoFor 115 years, the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, has been advancing the...
Strict asylum rules and poor treatment of migrants are pushing people north to the UK
Associated Press· 18 minutes agoThe rising tide crept above their waists, soaking the babies they hugged tight. Around a dozen Kurds...
Va. election updates: Cotter Smasal, Mehta victorious; Cao wins Virginia’s GOP Senate primary
WAVY via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoFollow along for updates below: Leslie Mehta wins Democratic nomination for Virginia’s 1st...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 days agoI have studied Lawson for more than 20 years, and I argue that he was among the most important...
Spike Lee among National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award honorees
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoBy placing American racial history and themes into a dramatic context, and by celebrating Black...
John Gaines, civil rights leader and member of Friendship Nine, has died
WSOC-TV Charlotte· 1 day agoJohn Gaines, a civil rights leader from South Carolina who made history during a sit-in at a Rock...
More than 200 arrested in Kenya protests over proposed tax hikes in finance bill
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 hours agoMore than 200 protesters have been arrested in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, in ongoing protests against...
Clayton Sheriff Allen wins reelection; Anderson to be commission chair
Atlanta Journal-Constitution· 2 hours agoClayton County Sheriff Levon Allen appeared to win reelection Tuesday, despite losing the support of...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 hours agoA Mississippi civil rights lawyer was arrested over the weekend after filming a traffic stop. According to The Associated Press, she had filed a federal lawsuit against the ...
Remembering How Willie Mays Inspired
Time via Yahoo Sports· 2 hours agoBettmann Archive/Getty Images That wasn’t good enough for critics, like Robinson himself, who thought that Mays should become more vocal in the civil...
