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Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Friday, June 09, 2023

National Civil Rights Museum celebrates Juneteenth with a free Community Day

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The National Civil Rights Museum is celebrating the Juneteenth holiday on June 19 as a Community Day with free museum admission and museum...
Monday, June 05, 2023

New Book Alert: The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

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A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlik...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

NAACP Statement on DOJ Louisville Police Report

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Following the release of a Department of Justice report finding a pattern of unconstitutional behavior by routinely using excessive force ...
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

Statue of Civil Rights Icon Daisy Bates to Stand in U.S. Capitol

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Few Arkansans have left legacies as impactful as that of Daisy Gatson Bates. That legacy will be recognized nationally when a statue mem...
Monday, August 01, 2022

Statement from President Joe Biden On the Passing of Bill Russell

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President Biden released the following statement on the death ofBill Russell: The promise of America is that we are all created equal an...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

WATCH: Mary McLeod Bethune Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall

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It was a historic moment Wednesday, as marble statue of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune,the founder of Bethune-Cookman University and champion of ...

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune becomes first African American representing a state at Statuary Hall in DC

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Civil Rights icon, educator, author, philanthropist, humanitarian and women's rights activist Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune will be honored ...
Thursday, February 03, 2022

Civil Rights Leaders Request Meeting With NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell To Discuss Hiring Practices

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The Rev. Al Sharpton and other prominent civil rights leaders promised “direct action” at this month’s Super Bowl if the NFL does not imme...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Claudette Colvin's juvenile record has been expunged

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The juvenile court records of Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused in 1955 to give up her seat to a White person on an Ala...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Rosa Parks documentary coming to Peacock in 2022

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Peacock announced Wednesday that production has begun on "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," a full length documentary abo...
Saturday, July 17, 2021

Civil rights pioneer Gloria Richardson dies at age 99

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Gloria Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial ine...
Thursday, September 03, 2020

School named for Maine's first African American legislator

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An elementary school in Maine's largest city has been named for the state's first African-American legislator. The former Riverton...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

The Congressional Black Caucus Mourns the Loss of Congressman John Lewis

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The Congressional Black Caucus released the following statement on the passing of House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairm...

Civil Rights Icon John Lewis dead at 80

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John Robert Lewis,  the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

BET Networks to Broadcast the 51st NAACP Image Awards Live on February 22, 2020

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The NAACP and BET Networks announced a broadcast partnership to air the 51st NAACP Image Awards. The telecast...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

House Judiciary Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Legislation to Study Slavery Reparations

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The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties has issued a press release about a hearing it...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Cory Booker & Kamala Harris Statement on Senate Passage of Anti-Lynching Bill

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U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the below statement foll...
Monday, July 30, 2018

US Rep. John Lewis released from hospital with 'clean bill of health'

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After a health scare, civil rights icon and US Rep. John Lewis of Georgia was released from the hospital Sunday evening with a "cle...
Friday, July 06, 2018

Colin Kaepernick receives civil rights award from National Education Association

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Former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick received the National Education Association’s highest honor, the NEA President’s ...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Tim Scott Introduce Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Crime

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U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), and Tim Scott (R-SC), the only African-American members of the United States ...