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Today in History: January 8, Lyndon Johnson declares 'war on poverty'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIn 1994, Tonya Harding won the ladies’ U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, a day after...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s moral stance against the Vietnam War offers lessons on how to fight for...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoCivil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., center, leads an anti-Vietnam War demonstration on March...
How did hunger become a hot-button partisan issue?
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoApple Core In Refrigerator Getty Images/Angelo Cavalli Since Mike Johnson’s recent ascent to House speaker, food insecurity advocates have been sounding...
America Already Knows How to Address Child Poverty
Time via Yahoo News· 8 months agoChildren participate in activities at the Head Start classroom in the Carl and Norma Millers Childrens Center on March 13, 2023, in Frederick, Md. Credit...
Lady Bird Johnson’s Personal Audio Diaries Are Featured in a New Documentary
Biography via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLady Bird Johnson was the wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson and first lady from 1963 to 1969. Read...
Progressives Have Failed to Heed LBJ’s Final Warning
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPresident Lyndon B Johnson with US Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr at the White House,Washington DC, December 1963. Dr King, head of the...
Inside Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US military campaign that dropped 2 million tons of bombs on...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA boy runs past rusted halves of cluster bomb shells and other military hardware in a scrap metal...
30 Civil Rights Leaders of the Past and Present
Biography via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIda B. Wells, John Lewis, Thurgood Marshall, and Tarana Burke are just some of the Black civil rights activists who continue to impact American society...
Israel could be Biden’s Vietnam
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPundits and protestors are drawing parallels between Joe Biden and Lyndon B Johnson – another liberal presidency doomed by an ugly war. In so many ways,...
My Generation Was The Scapegoat For America’s Failures — And So Is Yours
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 9 months agoBack in the day, when VH1 primarily showed music videos, it had a segment dedicated to music from...