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21 Civil Rights Activists Who Changed And Will Change History
Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice ...
Civil rights-era government agency to be purged
A memo reviewed by CBS News said Trump appointees are considering closing the Community Relations Service, which was created ...
MLK in the North: The Civil Rights Leader Understood That Racism and Segregation Were National Problems
Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...
How Newspapers Struggled to Cover Martin Luther King Jr. and Segregation in the North
Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.
Judge Raises Jan. 6 Cases in Questioning Civil Rights Activist
A Fifth Circuit judge invoked the government’s prosecutions of Capitol rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, as she sharply questioned a ...
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With a nod to America’s civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes a mark of his own
He would not normalize a moment like this,” Booker said of Lewis’ work as a young activist during the Civil Rights movement ... the 2014 protests against police brutality in Ferguson ...
US Senate confirms Trump loyalist to lead Justice Department civil rights unit
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, in a 52-45 vote ...