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Black leaders commemorate 70 years of Brown v. Board with call to action
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoSome of the nation’s most prominent Black political leaders and advocates celebrated the 70th...
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,...
Lessons for today from the overlooked stories of Black teachers during the segregated civil rights...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA Black schoolroom in Mississippi in 1939. Corbis via Getty Images My grandmother’s name was Mrs....
What It's Like to Lose Water in Jackson, MS
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCollege student and organizer Maisie Brown sprang into action as soon as the emergency was declared. She's part of a tradition of self-reliance in...
Bennie Thompson applauds posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for Medgar Evers
The Hill via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoRep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) was just a boy when civil rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down...
The Black history that isn't taught: Historians share lesser known moments in US racial history
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe deadly voting rights campaign known as Freedom Summer, the successful Black labor rights...
