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Dorie Ann Ladner, civil rights activist, dies at 81
Politico via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDorie Ann Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent...
The antisemitic cartoon roiling Harvard? It's not the first time it caused a firestorm
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoKojo Acheampong, a Harvard student and member of the African and African American Resistance...
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...
In pictures: A lookback at student protest movements in the US
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoStudents have established encampments and occupied campus buildings to protest Israel’s war in Gaza,...
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...
Civil rights leader Bernard Lafayette to help launch Fisk-Belmont social justice initiative. What to...
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLongtime civil rights leader Bernard Lafayette is set to speak Thursday in Nashville at the launch...
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...
Civil rights activist Bettie Mae Fikes, 'the voice of Selma,' recalls turbulent '60s with a song in...
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPAXTON — Bettie Mae Fikes, a founding member of the Freedom Singers during the U.S. civil rights...
Civil Rights activist Bob Zellner 'put his body on the line.' Pensacola can hear his story.
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBob Zellner was 22 years old when he got his first taste of the civil rights movement after marching...
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...