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Owner of Billie’s Pastries remembered for her impact in East St. Louis and beyond
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBillie Jean Miller touched many lives. Friends and family tell stories of her passion for helping...
Driver for 1961 Freedom Riders, Herbert Young, dies
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHerbert Young was 25 years old in 1961 when he made history busing Freedom Riders through Alabama’s capital city of […] The post Driver for 1961 Freedom...
12 Picture-Perfect Grown-up Graphic Novels
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBest Graphic NovelsHearst Owned Not long ago, stories that used both words and visual art were relegated to the children’s section or the comic bin. But...
Bill Russell, NBA great and longtime activist, dies at 88
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBOSTON — Bill Russell, the NBA great who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships...
Mack Workman, SC Friendship Nine civil rights legend, dies. ‘They changed the world.’
Rock Hill Herald via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMack Workman, an African-American teen in Rock Hill in the 1960s who went to jail protesting civil...
Biden marks MLK Day at King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church: ‘Progress is never easy’
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPresident Joe Biden honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the civil rights leader’s historic...
Photographer Danny Lyon: I was told ‘You can’t look at Tom Hardy – he doesn’t like it’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThere are moments in the photographer Danny Lyon’s transfixing new memoir when it seems almost...