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Virginia NAACP sues Shenandoah County school board for reinstating Confederate names
The Virginian-Pilot· 1 day agoThe Virginia NAACP sued a county school board Tuesday over its reinstatement of Confederate military...
James Lawson, Civil Rights Activist and MLK’s Chief Strategist, Dies at 95
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMartin Luther King Jr.'s family, Chef José Andrés, Cornel West and numerous others mourn the...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95
U-T San Diego· 3 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
LZ Granderson: Praising the Jim Crow era? That's a red flag
Greensboro News & Record· 2 hours agoJim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the Electoral College but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump ...
Independent's curse: RFK Jr. is no Ross Perot
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJun. 11—Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will campaign Saturday in Albuquerque. Can you feel the excitement, the heady sense of a 70-year-old newcomer on the rise? Neither ...
Mary Louise Powell, the matchmaker for MLK and Coretta Scott King, will finally receive a headstone...
The Boston Globe· 3 days agoPowell’s memorial will be unveiled in a ceremony at her resting place, the St. Joseph Cemetery in...
A look back at the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Cronin and Loevy
Colorado Springs Gazette· 4 days agoMonday is the 60th anniversary of the successful cloture vote in the U.S. Senate that enabled final enactment, on July 2, 1964, of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the law that ...