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MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech and its legacy
Washington Post· 11 hours agoThis Washington Post poll was conducted among random national samples of 1,001 adults from July 28 31 and 88 adults from August 4 7 for a combined sample of 1,089 adults. Interviews were conducted ...
The Radically Different Lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis
The New York Sun· 4 days agoJohn Lewis first shows up in Jonathan Eig’s trenchant biography as the kind of courageous and...
Arkansas MLK. Commission holds anti-bullying campaign at Lincoln Memorial
KARK via Yahoo News· 5 days ago“This is an opportunity for our youth to combat bullying and to talk...bullied, what a person needs...
Joan Baez: ‘It feels good to have changed the world’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoINTERVIEW: At 83, the trailblazing singer and civil rights activist is publishing her first collection of poetry. She talks to Kevin E G Perry about the...
How Rita Moreno uses honors like an upcoming public television award to further her philanthropy
The Hill· 7 days agoFollowing her Oscar win for “West Side Story,” Moreno joined the “Ban the Bomb” demonstrations...
GOP-led Missouri House advances measure targeting diversity programs
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 4 days agoMembers of the Missouri House on Wednesday debated a proposal to bar state departments and agencies...
Michelle Yeoh receives 2024 Presidential Medal of Freedom Award
ClutchPoints· 7 days agoPresident Joe Biden announced on Friday the 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, with...
Biden Awards the Medal of Freedom to Nancy Pelosi, Medgar Evers, Michelle Yeoh and 16 Others
Skanner· 6 days agoPresident Joe Biden on Friday bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 people, including civil rights icons such as the late Medgar Evers, prominent political leaders such as former ...
SF civil rights activist Cecil Williams' legacy to remain preserved in library archives
Axios· 3 days agoAs the Bay Area mourns the late civil rights activist Cecil Williams, the San Francisco Public...
Obstacles remain as women seek more leadership roles in America's Black Church - Los Angeles...
Los Angeles Sentinel· 6 days agoNo woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people.