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Bethel Baptist Church awarded $650K for interactive space to share story of the Civil Rights...
WBRC Fox 6 Birmingham· 6 hours agoThe Mellon Foundation Humanities in Place Fund has awarded $650,000 to Historic Bethel Baptist...
Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 3 days agoTheWrap offers a brief history lesson on Freedom Day, which commemorates the nation's full abolition of slavery and became a federal holiday just three...
Rolling through history: Fort Worth’s new bus memorial honors Civil Rights Movement
Dallas Morning News· 4 days agoFort Worth drivers will notice something not from this era while riding down East Rosedale Avenue....
The surprise election that could be a model for Democrats in 2024
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoWith Democrats divided over the Israel-Hamas war, uninspired by their presidential nominee in Joe...
Celebrating 10 Years of Comcast NBCUniversal’s Voices of the Civil Rights Movement in Houston, Texas...
KION 46 Salinas· 6 days agoFrom August 2023 through August 2024, Comcast NBCUniversal is celebrating the 10th anniversary of...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s son blasts North Carolina Republican Mark Robinson
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoKing told USA TODAY he felt called to weigh in on what is expected to be the most contentious race...
Emmett Till's story: Seattle museum turns pain into purpose with Juneteenth exhibit
KCPQ via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe Northwest African American Museum's Juneteenth exhibit opens a portal to the past, highlighting...
Civil rights icon Andrew Young shares insights at Kansas Bar Association meeting
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoTOPEKA — On a Saturday drive home in the late 1950s in Alabama, Andrew Young — then a pastor and...
Freedom Summer: 60 years since the iconic movement
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 13 hours agoThe summer of 1964 was a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, demonstrating the power of ground-level activism and interracial cooperation. Anyone over 18 in Mississippi can register ...
Atlanta civil rights leader known for using megaphone at protests dies: City Councilmember
WXIA-TV Atlanta· 3 hours agoAtlanta City Council member Michael Julian Bond issued a heartfelt statement Saturday on the passing...