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Montgomery Newspaper Launched During Civil Rights Movement Gets Historic Marker
The marker, placed at the Courier's former office, is a result of a years-long effort to recognize its place in the city's and civil rights history.
Civil rights organization declares 'state of national emergency,' citing attacks on DEI
Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, discussed the organization's efforts to resist what he calls an ...
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Marker to honor The Southern Courier for civil rights era reporting
A group of Harvard University journalism students formed The Southern Courier in 1965 to document the Civil Rights Movement. The newspaper covered Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi and worked to ...
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60 Years Later: How a Civil Rights-Era Defamation Case Empowers the Press
Trump sued ABC and anchor George Stephanopoulos for stating on-air that Trump was liable for rape, arguing that he had ...
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Black disability advocates who helped shape civil rights
Discover the intersection of Black history and disability rights, featuring icons like Sojourner Truth, Brad Lomax, and Lois ...
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Family, friends remember Vernon Dahmer Jr., son of civil rights activist, as a 'gentle' man
Vernon Dahmer Jr., eldest son of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr., has died. We talk to family, friends of the ...
Gay journalist says LGBTQ movement has gone from civil rights success to 'madness'
In a New York Times essay, Andrew Sullivan examined how the gay rights movement transformed from civil rights victories to radical gender ideology that has alienated Americans.
A new Supreme Court case is an existential threat to the Voting Rights Act
The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.
Church that was ‘work space’ for Civil Rights Movement is nearly restored and awaits new designation
The West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Northwest Atlanta, a site deeply rooted in the Civil Rights Movement, may soon be designated as a National Historic Site.