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An American Gangster at 100: J. Edgar Hoover's Authoritarian Legacy
Reason.com via AOL· 7 days agoThe FBI's disdain for the civil rights movement was so visceral that agents would tip off police in...
Preying on white fears worked for Georgia’s Lester Maddox in the ’60s − and is working there for...
San Francisco Chronicle· 21 hours agoDemocrat Lester Maddox, owner of a chicken restaurant and a perennial candidate. Maddox showed that it was politically profitable to play on the fears and anxieties
Cori Bush Calls Out Police and Government Repression of Social Movements
Teen Vogue via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe women’s suffrage movement led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment despite opposition from...
Complaint filed against Collier County Public Schools claiming discrimination
NBC 2 Fort Myers· 2 days agoA complaint has been made against the Collier County Public School District and School Board,...
UC Berkeley to consider divesting from weapons makers as pro-Palestinian protesters break camp
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPro-Palestinian protesters at UC Berkeley removed their encampment after talks with the university,...
Viewpoints: LBJ's Great Society at 60: Expensive, expansive, controversial – and incomplete
The Buffalo News· 5 days agoThis month marks the 60th anniversary of President Johnson unveiling his “Great Society” vision....
Biden meets with families, plaintiffs on 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
UPI· 15 hours agoPresident Joe Biden on Thursday commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark...
Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education’s Legacy in a New Era of Massive Resistance
Capital B via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoExactly 70 years after some of the greatest Black legal minds in the U.S. challenged racial...
UC Berkeley to consider divestment from weapons as pro-Palestinian protesters remove encampment
LA Times via AOL· 2 days agoPro-Palestinian protesters at UC Berkeley removed their encampment after talks with the university,...
Rep. Tom Emmer calls Trump trial ‘a sham’
MinnPost· 7 days agoHours of sordid testimony in the third week of testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan transfixed the political class in Washington D.C.