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The Root· 51 minutes ago“This is a historic moment because for the first time since its creation, following the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the confirmed Assistant Attorney General ...
Reparations have become the latest target for conservative activists. Advocates say they are...
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA conservative group’s lawsuit against a reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, that provides...
How Nashville's Southern Student Organizing Committee was inspired to broaden Civil Rights Movement
Gannett via AOL· 2 days ago“On all these counts, the clock has been turned back,” Orrock said. “And that’s the world we live in now.” This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: James Lawson helped inspire ...
Southern Baptist Convention disdains female ministers, but merit should eclipse misogyny
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 4 days agoFrom the Civil War to the 19th Amendment to the Civil Rights Movement, the arc of history has always...
A new documentary tells the story of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer in her own words
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 3 days agoFannie Lou Hamer started as a sharecropper but would go on to become one of the most passionate...
10 books to read while you wait for the next season of 'Bridgerton'
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoAlthough Cecilia Bassingwaite looks like a demure Victorian woman, she's actually a thief. She uses...
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin: All About the Actress’ Decades-Long Friendship
People Magazine· 1 day agoBeyond the work they’ve done, though, their friendship has been the subject of the spotlight, too....
Fact-checking Byron Donalds’ ‘Jim Crow’ comments on Black families, conservatism
Austin American-Statesman· 5 days agoJim Crow laws were enacted over several decades after the end of post-Civil War Reconstruction in...
Rev. James Lawson fought injustice with love and nonviolence. The work is incomplete
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoHe would, however, say that the Movement's efforts were incomplete. They were incomplete then, and...
Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides,...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 days agoLawson was recruited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Lawson spent decades in Los Angeles working...
