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A conversation about memory, movement-building and the sacred work of staying connected. In this stirring episode of Complexified, we sit down with scholar, poet and community elder Rachel Harding ...
Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Ass ...
The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass ...
In a new report for the Manhattan Institute, I review how we got here and ask what a durable compromise on civil-rights law might look like. I propose ways to fight racial bias, regardless of ...
The landmark church was a foundation of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s and a haven and assembly point for social, cultural, spiritual, and political ...
The movement is said to have sparked change far beyond campus ... all of the hearing kids that were learning about civil rights and major political moments weren’t learning about this,” DiMarco says.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The historic Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, a landmark with ties to Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement, caught on fire early Monday morning. Officers say ...
A water fountain. A lunch counter. A seat on a public bus. Access to these things might sound simple, but the Civil Rights Movement thrust them deeply and permanently into our national fabric ...
St. Johns County has reversed its decision to demolish the Old County Jail, a site significant to the Civil Rights movement. The decision follows public outcry from historians and community ...
Employees are fearful the actions will undermine the spirit of a division formed in 1957 during the Civil Rights Movement and efforts to desegregate the South and protect the voting rights of ...
Last week, a report from Black Press USA suggested that the Greensboro lunch counter display — a centerpiece artifact from the Civil Rights Movement — would be removed from the National Museum ...
It’s an example, according to whistleblowers, of the type of work that is now paused after the department’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was dissolved in late March. The ...