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People celebrate Juneteenth in Washington

Nation Jan 15

Martin Luther King III reflects on Dr. King’s legacy in divided times

By John Yang, Andrew Corkery

Nation Dec 11

Ms. Foundation For Women 2016 Gloria Awards Gala & After Party
Dorothy Pitman Hughes, pioneering Black feminist and community activist, dies at 84

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist…

By Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press

Politics Dec 03

Primary election in Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia’s runoff elections have segregationist roots

Since the 1960s, Georgia’s majority voting law has required a candidate get 50 percent of the vote or more in order to be declared the winner.

By Nicole Ellis, Rachel Liesendahl

Nation Jul 31

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The double life of civil rights photographer Ernest Withers

Photographer Ernest Withers captured some of the most iconic images of the civil rights era. But Withers was also an FBI informant, funneling information to the bureau about the civil rights movement and its leaders. Journalist Wesley Lowery joins Geoff…

By Geoff Bennett, Harry Zahn, Juliet Fuisz

Nation Jun 18

Bayard Rustin, deputy director of the March on Washington.
Court posthumously vacates Freedom Riders’ 1947 convictions in North Carolina

On April 9, 1947, a group of eight white men and eight Black men began the first “freedom ride” to challenge laws that mandated segregation on buses in defiance of the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court Morgan v. Virginia ruling declaring…

By Tom Foreman Jr., Associated Press

Feb 17

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‘Civil Rights Queen’ examines the legacy of Constance Baker Motley

By Nicole Ellis, Saher Khan, Tyriana Evans

As President Biden prepares to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, we revisit another historic first. Constance Baker Motley was the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary and the first to argue before the Supreme…

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Jan 17

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MLK Jr. would be ‘greatly disappointed’ by Senate inaction on voting reform, son says

Monday has been a day to remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and also a day of calls to action on voting rights. Demonstrators marched through streets in Washington in support of voting legislation now stalled in…

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Nov 18

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Why Malcolm X’s murder was revisited, and what exonerations say about U.S. justice system

By John Yang, Murrey Jacobson

A New York judge on Thursday exonerated two men of assassinating Malcolm X. The iconic civil rights figure was gunned down in Manhattan in 1965. Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam were convicted, and imprisoned until the 1980's. A…

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Nov 24

Bruce Boynton, who inspired 1961 Freedom Rides, dies at 83

By Associated Press

Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer who inspired the “Freedom Rides," has died at the age of 83. Boynton was arrested 60 years ago for entering the white part of a racially segregated bus station in Virginia and ultimately…

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Nov 11

Lucille Bridges, mother of activist Ruby Bridges, dies at 86

By Associated Press

Lucille Bridges walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as Ruby became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school in 1960.

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