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Juneteenth: NAN To Host William Augustus Jones Jr. Colloquium

Photos: Find A Grave New York – On Thursday, June 17th, Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton and Jennifer Jones Austin, a non-profit CEO ...

Georgia-based disability rights groups have joined the broad-based alliance of Georgia voters,

Disability Rights Groups Join Fight Against Georgia’s Anti-Voter Law S.B. 202

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Photo: YouTube ATLANTA — Three prominent Georgia-based disability rights groups have joined the broad-based alliance of Georgia voters, civil rights groups, and activists fighting ...

Septima Poinsette Clark is perhaps the only woman to play a significant role in educating African-Americans for full citizenship

Septima Clark: Educator And Civil Rights Leader

Photo: Wikimedia Commons Septima Poinsette Clark is perhaps the only woman to play a significant role in educating African-Americans for full citizenship rights without ...

Pan-African revolutionary, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) is best known for popularizing the slogan “Black Power,”

Pan-African Profile: Mister “Black Power” Kwame Ture

[Kwame Ture\Stokely Carmichael] Black Past: “He changed his name to Kwame Ture in 1968, in honor of his friends and political allies, Pan-African leaders ...

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I Have Been To The Mountaintop — Dr. King’s Message of Economic Empowerment

Dr. King delivering his last speech. Photo: YouTube     The following is excerpted from Dr. Martin Luther king’s last speech at the Mason ...

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50 Years Later: Continuing Dr. King’s Mission To Empower Economically Marginalized

Dr. King When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered he was engaged in a campaign to empower the economically marginalized. He said: “When ...

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Dr. Martin Luther King and Ms. Ella Baker

Ella Baker. Photo-ebay I woke up this morning thinking about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And then I began thinking about Ella Baker, whose ...

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Thousand Ministers’ March: Clergy Must Connect with Masses, Sharpton Says

NAN President Rev. Sharpton. Photo: Elvert Barnes-Flickr The Rev. Al Sharpton says his thousand-minister march is all the more urgent now than when he ...

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President Trump — A Dictator for the Oligarchs

President Eisenhower feared the emergence of a ruler like Trump — confluence of “misplaced power” and the “unwarranted influence” of the military-industrial complex. Photo ...