Civil Rights
Congressional leaders advocate for Rosa Parks Day federal holiday
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) – As the nation remembers the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ historic arrest, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell
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Renowned Civil Rights advocate Charles J. Ogletree Jr. dies
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a distinguished Harvard Law School professor, celebrated attorney, and leading civil rights
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By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer For many Americans, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s played out in abstract, from afar, in a place of the country that was foreign to them. ... NAACP calls out Tangipahoa Parish, says Black voters underrepresented
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer The Tangipahoa Parish School Board, which for decades has been besieged by allegations of civil rights violations and legal actions pressing the district for desegregation and racial ... Thousands descend on the Nation’s Capital for the 2020 March on Washington
By Barrington M. Salmon Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — On the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, tens of thousands of protestors gathered again at the Lincoln Memorial to protest the ... Congress moves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act measure forward
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The House Judiciary Committee has introduced the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the first-ever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, end ... Urban League, ACLU call for police, criminal justice reform
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Participants in an online webinar sponsored by the Urban League of Louisiana about police reform on June 16 said that any overhaul of the law enforcement system ... Death toll rises while outrage boils over conditions at Mississippi’s Parchman Prison
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The crisis at Parchman Prison, the former slave plantation where more than two-thirds of inmates are African American, continued with the February 16, ... Ill. governor calls for an investigation into the arrest of Black college athlete
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (BlackmansStreet.Today) — Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has demanded a thorough investigation into the arrest of an Eastern Illinois University athlete, ... Grtr. N.O. Fair Housing Action Center changes name
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer With a string of successful efforts behind it and another pivotal policy summit just ahead, one of the state’s largest fair housing advocacy organizations is celebrating a ...
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