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From a Memphis fried chicken joint to a tamale counter in Jackson, these restaurants didn't just feed civil rights leaders – ...
Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became ... with a botched attempt to free incarcerated activists, an incident that ended in a deadly shootout at a ...
Critics often compare climate activists to a sanitized memory of the civil rights movement as “a purely peaceful movement” to argue that radical and confrontational tactics won’t win hearts ...
Secretary Hegseth is reportedly considering re-naming the USNS Harvey Milk. It has to be done. Naming a ship after a ...
The last time was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the National Guard to protect Civil Rights marchers from ...
If not challenged, activists say, they could set the Civil Rights Movement back decades. “It’s been a full-frontal assault, and it's left people quaking. It’s left people shaking.
The Multi-Generational Community Building (MGCB) speaker series will host an event on May 15 and 16, featuring civil rights activists Mr ... from the Civil Rights Movement to inspire and educate ...
As President Donald Trump celebrates his birthday with a military parade in D.C., a broad coalition of opponents is rejecting what it calls the authoritarian excesses of his second administration.
An epochal moment in the movement occurred on June 27th, 1969, when LGBTQ patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City ...
Reed also said Civil Rights Movement activists dealt with more adversity than modern protesters because there weren’t many elected Black officials to give assistance and aid. Local and national ...