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Democrats Turned Against MLK. Time To Return the Favor | RealClearPolitics
RealClearPolitics· 7 days agoAs we sat on the bus traveling through Alabama, John Lewis and some of his fellow Freedom Riders...
An American Gangster at 100: J. Edgar Hoover's Authoritarian Legacy
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoIllustration: Lex Villena On May 10, 1924, one of the worst events in history for American civil...
How Jazz Became the Voice of Revolution
Time via Yahoo News· 2 days ago/And the bull got nasty – ghastly – nasty/Bull turned the hoses on the church people/And the water came splashing – dashing – crashing/Freedom rider–ride...
The Radically Different Lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis
The New York Sun· 1 day agoJohn Lewis first shows up in Jonathan Eig’s trenchant biography as the kind of courageous and...
Why a message of peace was lost at Pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt’s 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 1, and the Sacramento State campus is bustling with activity —...
Excavation of graves begins at University of Richmond
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 7 days agoAfter gaining state approval, the University of Richmond has begun excavating graves on campus that...
Civil rights icon John Lewis subject of new biography
Rolling Out· 7 days agoLegendary Civil Rights activist and long-time Georgia Representative John Lewis will be the subject...
Today in History: May 4, four killed during anti-war protest at Kent State University
The News-Times· 7 days agoToday is Saturday, May 4, the 125th day of 2024. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire during an anti-war protest at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine ...
Today in History: May 14, state of Israel is proclaimed
San Francisco Chronicle· 4 days agoToday is Tuesday, May 14, the 135th day of 2024. On May 14, 1948, according to the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv by David Ben-Gurion, who became ...
