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NC university files federal complaint, alleges SC deputies racially profiled students
The State McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoShaw University has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, seeking a review of a...
Hollis Watkins, jailed repeatedly fighting segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82
theGrio via AOL· 9 months agoIn 1961, Watkins became one of the first Mississippi residents to work for the Student Nonviolent...
Israel-Hamas war stirs free-speech battles at college campuses across US
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWASHINGTON – Aaron McIntyre skipped his math and environmental sciences classes Wednesday to join...
Nashville civil rights veteran Diane Nash to be honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDiane Nash was pivotal force of civil rights movement in Nashville, helping organize sit-ins and...
Black History Month: WHIO celebrates all who have pushed our nation forward
WHIO via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEvery February, Black History Month gives us the opportunity to learn about the rich and,...
Abortion rights activists vow to continue decadeslong Roe v. Wade fight: 'They're not going to win'
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHeather Booth was just 18 years old when she joined the civil rights movement. A member of the...
Civil rights giant Bernard Lafayette kicks off new Belmont-Fisk Social Justice Collaborative
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSleeping on the floor of the Birmingham bus station, the Rev. Bernard Lafayette Jr. was awakened...
Calls for divestment from apartheid South Africa gave today’s pro-Palestinian student activists a...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoIn the 1980s, university administrators called the police on anti-apartheid protesters, threatened...
14 heroes of the Civil Rights Movement whose names you may not recognize
Stacker via AOL· 5 months agoPhoto Illustration by Stacker // Getty Images In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights Movement,...
Unsung Detroit heroes: 2 Martin Luther King Jr. marches possible
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoNearly 60 years ago, on Aug. 28, 1963, the largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history was...