civil rights
Dr. King spoke out against the genocide of Native Americans
February 13, 2014It is probably little known what the great freedom fighter had to say about the horrific mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S.
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The sun shone on massive North Carolina Moral March
February 10, 2014The march, organized by the NAACP, labor unions, and religious leaders, amounted to a dramatic comeback of the Moral Monday protests that drew the nation's attention here over the last year.
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Today in black history: Leontyne Price born
February 10, 2014Her voice was "rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C."
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Feb. 14 marches for missing Native women unite action with compassion
February 10, 2014In March 2010, the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) created a database of information they gathered covering 582 cases of missing and murder native women and girls.
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Today in black history: “Jail-No-Bail” campaign began in S.C.
February 7, 2014SNCC leaders staged a Jail-No-Bail sit-in in solidarity with the imprisoned CORE activists. The sit-in re-energized the movement in Rock Hill, SC.
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