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I Marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We've Forgotten How to Truly Honor Him (Exclusive)
People via Yahoo News· 5 months ago"We all have to work together to make this country go," Florence Cunningham writes in a personal...
Civil rights leaders hoped for Biden meeting ahead of March on Washington anniversary that never...
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFifty-nine years ago on Aug. 28, throngs of mostly Black people mobilized and convened in...
How the March on Washington Became Al Sharpton’s Side Hustle
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 10 months agoJonathan Ernst/ReutersOn Saturday, August 26, thousands of people will gather at the Lincoln...
“I Have A Dream”: See Rare Color Images From Martin Luther King Jr.’s Famous Speech
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDr. Martin Luther King Jr. shakes hands with members of the crowd during the March on Washington, on...
Sixty years after the March on Washington, attendees renew the call for King’s ‘dream’
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIt’s been 60 years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, but Fatima Cortez Todd says...
Overlooked Moments in LGBTQ+ History
Time via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoSusanna and three friends in gowns on stage at Chevalier d'Eon, Hunter, NY, September 1960. Credit - American, 19th century, chromogenic print, Sheet:...
60 years ago, Columbus, Westerville residents marched for still elusive freedoms| Jeffries
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 9 months agoJudson L. Jeffries is professor of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University and...
Detroit serves as blueprint for the March on Washington
CBS News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSixty years ago, words from Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech were heard all across...
Progressives Have Failed to Heed LBJ’s Final Warning
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPresident Lyndon B Johnson with US Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr at the White House,Washington DC, December 1963. Dr King, head of the...
Dorie Ann Ladner, civil rights activist, dies at 81
Politico via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDorie Ann Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent...