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How Nashville's Southern Student Organizing Committee was inspired to broaden Civil Rights Movement
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoAnd they followed activists like the late Rep. John Lewis, Diane Nash...everywhere in the movement, ... his influence, his leadership,” said former Southern Student ...
Lynn Conway, Computing Pioneer and Transgender Advocate, Dies at 86
New York Times· 3 hours agoLynn Conway, a pioneering computer scientist who was fired by IBM in the 1960s after telling...
James Lawson's booming voice and loving spirit left a lasting mark on this UCLA professor
Los Angeles Times· 10 hours agoUCLA historian Vinay Lal remembers speaking alongside the Rev. James Lawson during a panel...
Reverend James Lawson, civil rights activist and nonviolent protest pioneer dies at 95
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHe was 95. Minister, professor, activist, and descendant of enslaved family members, Lawson lived...
Students on the frontline: South Africa and the US share a history of protest against white...
Investing.com· 22 hours agoEvery year on 16 June, South Africa commemorates the revolt of black school children against the...
Letter: Students protesting Gaza war deserve high praise | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Advertiser· 6 days agoA letter on May 31 makes a very broad (and alarming) accusation: The root of student protests in the...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThis map shows the many locations where James Lawson taught workshops on nonviolence in the late...
Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Stands on the Issues
New York Times· 2 days agoThe independent candidate, though still a long shot, has found support for his blend of populist economic rhetoric, isolationist foreign policy leanings...
Queen City Pride says Pride Parade bigger than ever, but Sask. Party politicians banned
CBC via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoRose Kuntz, a transgender woman, sat beaming in a trailer covered with fluttering Pride flags as she...
Youth activists are now real agents of change at global climate summits
The Conversation· 4 days agoOutside this...climate summit happening in Baku, Azerbaijan in November – young activists are pushing for palpable change. As climate law and politics researchers, we liken ...
