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Rock Hill Friendship Nine member John Gaines dies
WJZY via Yahoo News· 7 days agoFLORENCE, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – John Gaines, a member of the heralded Friendship Nine group that was arrested after staging a sit-in at a whites-only...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s son blasts North Carolina Republican Mark Robinson
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoRobinson has since softened some of his public rhetoric, even contradicting his past claims. In his...
‘Lost cause’ of our nation’s brutal racism permeates society, distorting history along the way
Nevada Current via Yahoo News· 5 days agoPolicy, politics and progressive commentary Few images from the violent attacks on peacefully...
John Gaines, civil rights leader and member of Friendship Nine, has died
WSOC via Yahoo News· 6 days agoGaines was one of the Friendship Nine, a group of college friends who were arrested during a sit-in...
Martin Luther King Jr. on ‘The other America’
Minnesota Reformer via Yahoo News· 5 days agoEditor’s note: To commemorate Juneteenth, we share excerpts of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at Stanford University in April 1967. We hear...
3 Veteran Restaurateurs on Navigating the New Realities of the Hospitality Business
Food & Wine via Yahoo Finance· 12 hours agoToday she has 10 Flour locations across the city — with one sit-down restaurant, Myers & Chang....
Former North Carolina A&T star Mac McCain signs with the Saints
ClutchPoints· 1 day agoFormer North Carolina A&T defensive star Mac McCain has signed with the New Orleans Saints, per an...
Friendship 9’s John Gaines dies at 83. SC civil rights group pioneered ‘jail, no bail’
The State via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThey were convicted of trespassing the next day and spent a month in jail rather than pay the $100...
Rumor Says Black People Couldn't Buy Vanilla Ice Cream Under Jim Crow. Here's the Truth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 7 days agoIn the drugstores, for instance, where many of the sit-ins took place in the 1960s, Black people...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 6 days agoCollege campuses across the nation have lit up in protests against the U.S. government’s support of Israel in its war with Gaza over the last several weeks. From the University of California ...
