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Bell Missionary Baptist gets marker noting role in civil rights history
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoBell Missionary Baptist Church was instrumental in the civil rights movement. Now, its pastors are...
Memphis residents say environmental racism prompted pollution ‘cesspool,' wreaking havoc
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoAirborne emissions of the colorless gas can increase the risk of certain medical conditions, including breast cancer. Sims, who is 59 and Black, said she developed breast cancer in 2019, despite ...
Cinco de Mayo 2024: What is Cinco de Mayo and why does the US celebrate? Here's what we know
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoCinco de Mayo literally means “the fifth of May” in Spanish, and it lands on Sunday in 2024. It’s not just a day to party, though. It commemorates a significant time in history</ ...
The Caucasian’s guide to a whiter America
theGrio via AOL· 5 hours agoOPINION: The growing Christian nationalist Redoubt movement is just the latest example in a long history of plans to make America white again. The post...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
'Squad' member compares anti-Israel campus protests to civil rights movement
WJLA· 4 days agoRep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., on Thursday compared pro-Palestine college protests to the civil...
Ruby Bridges Reflects On Historic 1960 School Integration
HuffPost· 1 day agoRon DeSantis passing legislation for anti-education laws that forbid curriculum on Black history. “I...
Why Colleges Don’t Know What to Do About Campus Protests
Time via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoIn short, this no-win situation seems likely to persist until courts and politicians determine what...
Saunderstown native’s honors brother, history with stirring book
The Pendulum· 5 days agoAnyone who lived through that era or who has studied the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s will never forget the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner by members of ...
Examining the long history of the ‘outside agitator’ narrative
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoAs university administrators and law enforcement crack down on campus protests over Israel’s war in...