Civil Rights

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October 30, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) -- The Rev. Bernice King has been chosen to head the civil rights organization co-founded by her father,…
October 29, 2009
OPINION - The Republicans have been reduced to their hyper-conservative core, which is united in a hatred of government...
October 28, 2009
OPINION - The LGBT struggle is a Civil Rights struggle yet, in the black community, fear of homosexuality (in others…
October 9, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be honored Friday with a Navy supply ship named for…
October 5, 2009
In 1960, Ruby Bridges was only 6 when she walked passed an angry mob to become the first black student…
September 22, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) - In a city where black history usually calls to mind the lives of civil rights leaders, a…
September 22, 2009
VIDEO - There are currently more than 5 million American citizens who cannot vote because of a criminal conviction, and…
September 2, 2009
OPINION - In May 1962, then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy was asked: "What do you see as the big problem ahead…
September 2, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) -- The city that became a post-civil rights movement emblem of the political power held by African-Americans could…
September 1, 2009
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Decatur, who became a judge and civil rights lawyer, will be buried…
September 1, 2009
The Justice Department is moving forward with plans to expand its civil rights division, pursuing cases of discrimination in the…
August 28, 2009
OPINION -- In today's age, what would Martin Luther King Jr. think about health care reform as a matter of…
August 26, 2009
FROM RACEWIRE.ORG> Hundreds upon hundreds of New York’s poorest Black and Latino youth have had to live in a place
August 26, 2009
OPINION - In a multitude of areas including housing, income, and civil rights for African-Americans and all minorities, Sen. Ted…
August 25, 2009
Politicians, business leaders, and educators gathered at the national mall in Washington, DC to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and…
August 13, 2009
VIDEO - The mayor of Birmingham now wants the city to give refunds to people who paid fines for violating…
August 12, 2009
VIDEO - A civil rights icon who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and helped lead the Montgomery…
July 21, 2009
Since April, a bloodied KKK robe from the 1950s has become part of a historical investigation. An anonymous donor who…
July 20, 2009
The New York Times reported on Rev. W. R. Portee of Los Angeles and his church buying Sumner Elementary School
July 16, 2009
A group of black police officers is suing the Philadelphia Police Department over an Internet discussion board on which officers…