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Early on the morning of April 4, Angela Jackson of Memphis stood at the intersection of Beale and South Fourth streets, holding a sign reading “I Am a Man.”
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When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he was in Memphis fighting for higher wages, safer working conditions and the dignity of the city’s sanitation workers, the majority of whom were black.
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Louisiana’s decision not to bring criminal charges against Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Alton Sterling raises serious questions. The final moments of his life looked less like a police stop and more like a public execution.
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Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban strips citizens of their right to vote for many offenses, such as writing a bad check or stealing wood.
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Rosa Parks is a national hero, but she is not recognized that way in her home state of Alabama.
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U.S. Rep. John Lewis led a gathering of congressional and civil rights leaders in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, today, honoring those who lost their lives in the struggle for civil rights.
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We have lost far too many children and educators to massacres in our nation’s schools. In the aftermath of the latest tragedy in Parkland, Florida, lawmakers across the country have recognized that it is time to act on school safety.
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On Feb. 8, 1968, nine South Carolina patrolmen opened fire on a crowd of African-American students gathered around a bonfire on the campus of South Carolina State University (SCSU) in Orangeburg.
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Schools are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a basic knowledge of the important role it played in shaping the United States and the impact it continues to have on race relations in America, according to a study released today by the SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance project.
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The Voting Restoration Amendment, which would restore voting rights to people with felony convictions upon completion of their sentences including probation, will be on Florida’s ballot in November.
