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The Root· 10 hours agoCivil rights attorney Benjamin Crump announced a fourth set of human remains were found just near the vicinity where those of Rasheem Carter was found months ago, according ...
Lies and distortion have a terrible effect on society. My brother's story illustrates that
Gannett via AOL· 1 day agoOn June 21, 1964, 60 years ago this week, my older brother Andrew Goodman was kidnapped and then murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi& ...
Community remembers costs as 60th anniversary of Civil Rights Act nears
The Weatherford Democrat· 2 days agoWhile it may seem like the distant past to younger generations, Hopkins said he and others remember...
22 Ida B. Wells Quotes About Injustice, Truth and Virtue
Parade via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of...
Martin Luther King Jr. on ‘The other America’
Minnesota Reformer via Yahoo News· 4 hours 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...
Neil Goldschmidt, former Oregon governor who confessed to sex with a minor in the 1970s, has died
San Francisco Chronicle· 6 days agoFormer Oregon Gov. Neil Goldschmidt, who as mayor of Portland was credited with starting the city on...
Emmett Till's story: Seattle museum turns pain into purpose with Juneteenth exhibit
Fox local via AOL· 10 hours agoThe Northwest African American Museum's Juneteenth exhibit opens a portal to the past, highlighting...
Ex-officer in Mississippi gets 1 year in prison for forcing man to lick urine off jail floor
Stamford Advocate· 7 days agoA former Mississippi police officer was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for forcing...
Opinion | Survivors of Tulsa race massacre have lived too long to be treated like this
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBut that act didn’t even lead to any new charges in the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till, a...
Judge blocks Biden's Title IX rule in four states, dealing a blow to protections for LGBTQ+ students
Stamford Advocate· 6 days agoThe Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students has been...
