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Sputnik Monroe, a wrestler in Tennessee during the Jim Crow era, advanced civil rights
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPeople of a certain age who grew up in Memphis know all too well about Sputnik Monroe, the professional wrestler who used the power of celebrity and popular culture to move the racial equality ...
What is Juneteenth, and how did it become a state and federal holiday?
The Republican· 1 day agoJune 19, also known as Juneteenth, was first celebrated as an official state holiday in...
24 Bucket-List Places to Take Your Kids
Cheapism via AOL· 30 minutes agoeli_asenova/istockphoto Take the Kids, Please Parents are afforded roughly 18 summers to take their children on family vacations that not only shape...
‘Voice for equality and justice’ in Birmingham civil rights movement dead at 82
Birmingham News· 2 days agoCivil rights activist Myrna Carter Jackson, who was twice arrested during marches in 1963 in the...
Court Theatre presents "Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution"
CBS News· 20 hours agoCHICAGO (CBS) — "Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution" is now at Chicago's Court Theatre, and...
Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday' Changed the Course of History
Time via AOL· 2 days agoState troopers and deputies stand at the entrance to a University of Alabama building in Tuscaloosa...
A Black photographer added himself to places where history didn’t want him | CNN
CNN.com· 1 day agoConceived by British photographer Lee Shulman and Senegalese self-portraitist Diop, the series sees...
New exhibition in memory of the Civil Rights Movement comes to St. Augustine Beach
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 3 days agoThere is a new exhibition at the St. Augustine Beach Hotel called “Waves of Change.” The unveiling...
A Fast-Growing Coffee Chain Is Creating Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Food & Wine via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBitty & Beau’s is a civil rights movement disguised as a coffee shop. MATT RAY PHOTOGRAPHY Bitty &...
Trail Gazette Guest Editorial: The Colorado GOP’s Troubling Rhetoric and Its Historical Echoes
Estes Park Trail Gazette· 1 day agoRemember when the world united against the tyranny of the Nazis during World War II? Fast forward to today, and we see the Colorado Republican Party drawing significant attention with its increasingly ...