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Atlanta civil rights activist known for using megaphone during marches passes away
WSB Cox articles via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoAn icon of the civil rights movement in Atlanta has passed away. Rev. Fred D. Taylor was known for...
Reggie Jackson Reveals Race Hell: ‘The N***er Can’t Eat Here’
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoBaseball legend Reggie Jackson on Thursday evening returned to the historic Alabama park that helped...
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...
Why is voter turnout always so low when so many communities are patriotic?
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoOn the 60th year anniversary of this nation’s most important, courageous and successful drive to...
Lawmakers push Rev. James Lawson for posthumous Congressional Gold Medal award
theGrio via AOL· 6 days ago“He had such a wonderful perspective and hopeful perspective about America.” Khanna has introduced...
The surprise election that could be a model for Democrats in 2024
CNN via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoWith Democrats divided over the Israel-Hamas war, uninspired by their presidential nominee in Joe...
Civil rights icon Andrew Young shares insights at Kansas Bar Association meeting
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 1 day agoTOPEKA — On a Saturday drive home in the late 1950s in Alabama, Andrew Young — then a pastor and...
From 2000: Notre Dame's Hesburgh reflects on Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Movement
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBy July 1964, Johnson signed that bill. The next year, the Civil Rights Voting Act was passed and,...
9 Things People Don’t Know About Juneteenth
MediaFeed via AOL· 5 days agowildpixel/istockphoto Let Freedom Ring Juneteenth, a blend of "June" and "Nineteenth," is a 159-year-old holiday that celebrates the liberation of the...
Freedom Summer: 60 years since the iconic movement
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 1 day 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 ...
