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For Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, the North's civil rights story has lived too long in the shadows.

(The Contrarian) – “There’s a real inflection point this May Day,” Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, said about the day unions worldwide attempt to recognize workers, ...

A popular counternarrative to this story tends to pay most attention to the activist groups that embraced violent direct action: less ballot, more bullet. During the summer of 2020, as police ...

The landscape of civil rights activism has evolved significantly since the 1960s, with a new generation of leaders emerging to address contemporary challenges. These modern champions combine ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

Rethinking social movement theory : race, class, gender, and culture -- Exclusion, empowerment, and partnership : race gender relations -- Women and the escalation of the civil rights movement -- ...

The organization said many of those targeted by the raids, conducted by a unit created by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, were Democratic leaders and election volunteers. Members of the League ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A man who courageously participated in the sit-in civil rights movements of the 1960s in downtown Nashville has died. According to multiple Metro Councilmembers, Vencen ...