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Granderson: Overcoming America's past is everyone's responsibility
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoAs a result, there’s concern about apathy. “We can do more than one thing at once,” Emhoff said...
These Researchers Study the Legacy of the Segregation Academies They Grew Up Around
ProPublica· 15 minutes agoProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. One young researcher from...
Spike Lee among National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award honorees
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 7 days agoLee is no stranger to Memphis. In 2010 and 2016, he gave talks at the University of Memphis. And in...
Traveling exhibit details life of Andrew Young, diplomat, civil rights icon
Associated Press· 4 days agoDr. Martin Luther King Jr., go on display next week at the University of Mississippi. The public can...
Racist slurs and death threats: The dangerous life of a Georgia elections official
New Jersey Monitor via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoNationally, 38% of local election officials have experienced threats, harassment or abuse since 2020...
Harriette Gillem Robinet, scientist, civil rights activist and lauded children's author, dies at 92
Chicago Sun-Times· 4 days agoAfter a successful career as a microbiologist, Harriette Gillem Robinet of Oak Park became a widely...
Freedom Summer: 60 years since the iconic movement
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 6 days agoAnyone over 18 in Mississippi can register to vote, and as long as they have a valid ID, they can head to the voting precinct on election day and cast their vote. When they ...
On This Day, June 21: Typhoon Fengshen kills 1,400 in Philippines
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 days agoOn June 21, 2008, nearly 1,400 people, most of them on a ferry that capsized, were killed in the...
Editor’s Note | Tulsa and the Importance of Remembering the Past
Mississippi Free Press· 19 hours agoTULSA, Okla.—A group of white men were laughing together over beers outside a sports bar in the...
Mississippi does not recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday
WLBT 3· 5 days agoJACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) -Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021. The holiday is observed by...