Tag: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
How the Distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s Words Enables More, not Less, Racial...
By Hajar Yazdiha, The Conversation
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to misuse the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King...
Freedom Riders’ 1947 Convictions Vacated in North Carolina
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they...
Jackson’s speech highlights US race struggles, progress
"In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States."
By Aaron Morrison, Associated Press
With...
Black Pastors Rally Outside Trial Over Arbery’s killing
Hundreds of pastors both rallied and prayed Thursday, November 18, outside the trial of three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery,...
Civil Rights Pioneer Seeks Expungement of ’55 Arrest Record
By Jay Reeves, Associated Press
Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back...