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Juneteenth means more than celebrations in Jackson. It's a time of reflection, commemoration
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 10 minutes agoMississippi does not recognize Juneteenth, despite having one of the nation’s largest Black...
How to celebrate Juneteenth in St. Augustine? Here's a list of events
The St. Augustine Record via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoDocuments show that while locked in the county jail, King telegrammed a friend, Rabbi Israel...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Cleveland Plain Dealer· 7 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
Retired AP reporter Hoyt Harwell dies at 93. He covered key events in the American South - ABC17NEWS
ABC17 NEWS· 12 hours agoHoyt Garland Harwell, a longtime reporter for The Associated Press who covered key events in the American South and was a mentor to young reporters, has died. Harwell died at home June 12 following ...
The Rev James Lawson, Martin Luther King’s right-hand man in the Civil Rights struggle – obituary
Daily Telegraph· 2 days agoLawson duly enrolled in the divinity department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, leading...
College Hill: Celebrity Edition: 5 Quick Facts About Xavier University
BET.com· 6 days ago“College Hill: Celebrity Edition” season three is approaching. Possibly because, once again, it’s...
Pa.-born civil rights leader who led sit-ins, Freedom Rides dies at 95
The Patriot-News· 7 days agoJames M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement,...
I use people's preferred pronouns out of respect. Not because the government said so.
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 4 days agoProfessor Nicholas Meriwether “believes that ‘God created human beings as either male or female,...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 7 hours agoIn 1952 my grandfather built a house for his wife and six children in a small South Carolina town. The house had four bedrooms, one bathroom, a dining room and a living room you could enter ...
‘My dad would put 87 in his BMW and wonder why he had fuel system issues’: Driver gets 87 grade...
The Daily Dot· 2 days agoOne man’s attempt at saving money at the gas pump may have cost him a trip to the mechanic. The...