civil rights

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• 5/19/19
  

  The History of Black Women Championing Demands for Reparations

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  For black women, the fight for reparations is not a new opportunity, it is a long-lasting battle for social justice.

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• SOURCE: The Tennessean
  4/26/19
  

  MLK's prescription for healing hate was embracing 'agape'

  by Eli Merritt

  King spoke about the Greek concept of agape, or brotherly love and compassion, a social concept he defined as “understanding, creative, redemptive good will for all men.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/9/19
  

  Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the story of Emmett Till’s murder

  by Dave Tell

  As Till’s story has been passed down through the generations and taken up by a range of memorials, its plot has been shaped by forces like poverty as much as by fidelity to historical fact.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/1/19
  

  A Digital Way to Follow the Freedom Riders’ Journey Against Segregation During the Civil Rights Era

  The Civil Rights activists faced violence in multiple cities in their fight for equality.

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• SOURCE: Refinery 29
  4/24/19
  

  The Revolutionary Artist & Civil Rights Activist Pop Culture Forgot About

  "She was a feminist before the feminist movement,” remarked Imani Perry. 

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• 4/14/19
  

  Trump’s War on Civil Rights and Beyond: A Conversation with Acclaimed Political Analyst and Civil Rights Historian Juan Williams

  by Robin Lindley

  "We need to understand how much blood, sweat, and tears it took to create the thriving Black America of today and protect us from those who, like President Trump, couldn’t care less."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/8/19
  

  From ‘40 acres and a mule’ to LBJ to the 2020 election, a brief history of slavery reparation promises

  by John Torpey

  Does the United States owe descendants of slaves reparations?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/28/19
  

  Want to unify the country? A community organizer and a Klan leader showed us how.

  by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  In the midst of the identity crisis we face as a nation, the organizing tradition that Ann Atwater embodied is the strong medicine we need.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/26/19
  

  Senator Doug Jones Writes Book on the Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights

  With this book, Jones invites us — indeed, challenges us — to look anew at the central paradox of the case.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/26/19
  

  The danger of denying black Americans political rights

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Without access to political rights, violence becomes a crucial tool in the fight for freedom.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  3/25/19
  

  Justin Rose's New Book explores how Martin Luther King Jr. transformed the Christian notion of service into a politically salient concept

  Dr. Rose’s book aims to fill an important gap in the literature on Martin Luther King Jr. by exploring King’s notions of political service.

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• 3/24/19
  

  Vernon Johns: An Often Forgotten Controversial Civil Rights Activist

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Johns was a critical figure in the push for racial equality, chiefly because he was not merely a pusher, but also a shover.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3/13/19
  

  Medgar Evers' home established as a national monument in Jackson

  “Medgar and Myrlie Evers are heroes whose contributions to the advancement of civil rights in Mississippi and our nation cannot be overstated,” U.S. Sen Roger Wicker said in a statement. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/12/19
  

  Beyond blackface: How college yearbooks captured protest and change

  by John R. Thelin

  College yearbook editors in the 1960s juxtaposed pictures of traditional campus activities, such as Greek Life, alongside images of protests and marches.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  3/4/19
  

  After 54 years, the fight for voting rights in Selma is ongoing, organizers say

  A Supreme Court decision in 2013, Shelby County v. Holder, rendered much of the Voting Rights Act ineffective. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/28/19
  

  Michael Cohen revealed Trump doesn’t understand America’s racist past

  by Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant

  Ghettos exist because of housing discrimination.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/27/19
  

  ‘They killed a white woman’: Fifty-four years later, Leroy Moton looks back at the killing that changed the civil rights movement

  Leroy Moton was riding in a car with civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo when she was shot to death after the third Selma to Montgomery march, in 1965. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/27/19
  

  Centrism and moderation? No thanks.

  by April Holm

  In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/26/19
  

  A high school government class wanted to help solve civil rights crimes. So they drafted a bill that is now law

  It began as an effort to make government more transparent.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/25/19
  

  Wyatt Tee Walker: Chief strategist for Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle for civil rights

  by Taylor McNeilly

  Walker was hailed as “one of the keenest minds of the nonviolent revolution” by none less than King himself.