Tag: civil rights movement
‘Fifth Little Girl’ of 1963 Klan bombing reunites with nurse
By Barnett Wright, The Birmingham Times
When an initially blinded, and nearly lifeless, 12-year-old girl found in the rubble of a church bombing was wheeled...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Was An American Patriot
By Dr. Alveda King, Courtesy of Trice Edney Newswire
Reverend Martin Luther King Junior was an American patriot. In the years since his death, my...
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Woman in Emmett Till Killing
A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70...
Jackie Robinson Museum opens after 14 years of planning
By Ronald Blum, Baseball Writer, Associated Press
Long dreamed about and in development for longer than the big league career of the man it honors,...
New Documentary Tells the True Story of Black and Brown Environmentalists
The organization Black Millennials For Flint made “Toward Environmental Justice” to teach others about the influence of Black and Indigenous folk on the Environmental...