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Martin Luther King Jr.'s son blasts North Carolina Republican Mark Robinson
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoRobinson visited the Greensboro Civil Rights Museum, the site of the former lunch counter and...
Friendship 9’s John Gaines dies at 83. SC civil rights group pioneered ‘jail, no bail’
The State via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThey were convicted of trespassing the next day and spent a month in jail rather than pay the $100...
Rock Hill Friendship Nine member John Gaines dies
WJZY via Yahoo News· 5 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...
2 sisters, a farmer and a dentist are among those honored with Freedom Trail markers
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoReaves. He was a central figure inthe Civil Rights Movement in Benton County. Decades before the...
Opinion: James Lawson and the enduring lessons of nonviolence
Los Angeles Times· 6 days agoJames M. Lawson Jr., who died last week, was a legendary hero of the civil rights movement; the...
Martin Luther King Jr. on ‘The other America’
Minnesota Reformer via Yahoo News· 3 days agoEditor’s note: To commemorate Juneteenth, we share excerpts of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at Stanford Universityin April 1967. We hear ...
‘Lost cause’ of our nation’s brutal racism permeates society, distorting history along the way
Colorado Newsline via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThis commentary originally appeared in the Kansas Reflector. Few images from the violent attacks on...
Commentary: With a nudge from above, Virginia takes a step toward racial reconciliation
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 6 days agoThe Black church and its ministers — from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to the Rev. L. Francis Griffin ...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 4 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 ...
Orangeburg to break ground on Railroad Corner revitalization
WACH FOX 57· 3 days agoThe City of Orangeburg is set to hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday. The ceremony will take place at 10 am marking the revitalization of Railroad Corner. The project's initial phase ...
