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19 Juneteenth Facts To Celebrate Black Independence Day
Blavity via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJuneteenth, celebrated on June nineteenth, is coming up and it is time for sorrowful reflection but...
The Rise and Fall of American Integralism
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe mandate contained religious exemptions, but it failed to protect the Little Sisters’ freedom not to provide contraception to its members. So, these...
San Antonio teen vows to fight for the rights of others
San Antonio Express-News· 16 hours agoJustice and equality fueled Charlotte Blackwood’s sermon to the congregation at the First Unitarian...
60 years after Civil Rights Act, US still wrestles with complex racial dynamics
National Catholic Reporter· 7 days agoSixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the United States...
Community remembers costs as 60th anniversary of Civil Rights Act nears
The Meridian Star, Miss. via Yahoo News· 6 days agoJun. 10—This year will mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Civl Rights Act of 1964, and community leaders are using the anniversary to remind residents of the ...
Civil rights icon Pastor James Lawson dies at 95
Los Angeles Daily News· 6 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and the longtime pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in South Los Angeles, died...
Want to celebrate Juneteenth in Lexington? Here’s all the ways to do it
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJune 19, at Cadentown Missionary Baptist Church, 2950 Cadentown Road: This will be a Juneteenth...
James Lawson, towering civil rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 6 days ago"Officers Act Quickly with Mace and Night Sticks to ..., Lawson — pastor of Centenary Methodist ...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 day agoKnown as Juneteenth in Texas, Emancipation Days symbolized America’s attempt to free the enslaved...
Concerns for Black communities mount amid secret recording of Supreme Court Justice Alito
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHe called for both justices to resign “immediately” over what he described as a “secret agenda”...