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Alabama: Sharpton To March With VP Harris On 59th Anniversary Of Bloody Sunday

By National Action Network Photos: Twitter\X\Black Voters Matter New York, NY (March 3, 2024) – Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National ...

August 6th, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson (shown above) signed the 1965 Voting Rights Law

Voting Rights: House Judiciary To Hold Hearing With DOJ’s Kristen Clarke

Photos: Wikimedia Commons\Fair Vote On August 6th, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson (shown above) signed the 1965 Voting Rights Law which outlawed many of ...

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Voting Rights: Hundreds Arrested At D.C. Moral Monday March

Photo: Twitter Thousands of clergy and low-wage workers attended a rally Monday in Washington, D.C., and hundreds were arrested as the Poor People’s Campaign: ...

Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston Texas’s Fifth Ward on February 21, 1936.

Barbara Jordan: Congresswoman, Lawyer and Civil Rights Leader

Photo: Facebook Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston Texas’s Fifth Ward on February 21, 1936. She received her education in public schools in ...

President-Elect Joe Biden has brought decency back to the White House by defeating Donald Trump.

Joe Biden’s Presidential Victory Brings Back Decency To White House

[President-Elect Joe Biden] Rev. Jackson: “With the new tone, Biden offered new priorities and action. He listed the staggering challenges that face the country ...

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New Book Chronicles 1965 Murders of two Civil Rights Activists

[Jimmie Lee Jackson\James Reeb] The book JIMMIE LEE & JAMES draws unnerving parallels between conditions that spurred the civil rights movement of the 1960s ...

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Democrats Celebrate 55th Anniversary of 1965 Voting Rights Act, Introduce Legislation

[55th Anniversary of 1965 Voting Rights Act] Senator Kaine: “Despite the signing of the original Voting Rights Act 55 years ago today, hundreds of ...

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KERNER REPORT SET STANDARD FOR SERIOUS PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

[U.S. Politics\Kerner Report] Rev. Jackson: “Notably absent from the debate is a leader prepared to be as bold and as serious about the challenges ...

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Why #BlackLivesMatter Is Rallying Cry for our Times

Feel the Movement — feel the power   While it is obvious to many of us that all lives matter, it is not so ...

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Deja Vu: CEO Pay and The Fleecing of America

The have-a-lots continue to have-a-lot [Speaking Truth To Power] An Associated Press report has found that CEO pay reached record levels in 2013 as ...