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Biden Marks ‘Bloody Sunday' by Signing Voting Rights Order
A new executive order from President Joe Biden directs federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access
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Illustrator Celebrates Black Civil Rights, Natural Hair With New Design
A San Diego-based artist is celebrating Civil Rights movements and natural hair with a new design that champions them both with one word to describe them: power.
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‘We Just Accepted This:' How Segregation Continued Past Legal Change
Johnnie R. Turner, a former Tennessee state representative, talks about her experience with implicit segregation on buses and public spaces even after courts have ruled to desegregate.
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ACLU, for First Time in 101-Year History, Elects Black Person as Its President
Deborah Archer, a law professor at New York University with expertise in civil rights and racial justice, has become the first Black person in the 101-year history of the American Civil Liberties Union to be elected its president
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Virginia Panel Wants Barbara Johns Statue to Replace Lee in US Capitol
A state panel has recommended that a statue of civil rights hero Barbara Johns should represent Virginia at the U.S. Capitol
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Louisiana State Trooper Who Faced Firing in Black Man's Death Dies in Crash
A Louisiana state trooper has died following a single-vehicle crash hours after learning he would be fired for his role in the in-custody death of a Black man last year.
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Senators Seek Highest Civilian Honor for Till and His Mother
A Republican and a Democratic senator say Congress should give the nation’s highest civilian honor posthumously to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
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DNC's Tribute to John Lewis
Watch the tribute to John Lewis at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Footage provided is a mixed feed and is a joint effort by the pool and the DNCC.
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‘For the Future Benefit of My Whole Race': How Black Women Fought for the Vote Before and After 19th Amendment
Ida B. Wells was in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1913 with thousands of other women for a parade spearheaded by one of the country’s leading suffragists, Alice Paul. Wells was representing the Alpha Suffrage Club, the first Black suffrage club in Chicago that she founded two months before. At the rehearsal, she learned that the white organizers...
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Obama Eulogizes John Lewis: ‘He Knew That the March Is Not Over'
Former President Barack Obama eulogized Rep. John Lewis Thursday, remembering the work the civil rights icon completed and warning that there is much more work to be done.
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12-Year-Old Honors Rep. John Lewis With His Favorite Poem
Tybre Faw, a 12-year-old boy who Rep. John Lewis befriended two years ago, read the late congressman’s favorite poem at his memorial.
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John Lewis in Posthumous Essay: ‘Your Turn to Let Freedom Ring'
John Lewis spent his whole life fighting for civil rights — and he wanted to make sure the cause lived on after his death.
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Pelosi: John Lewis Was All About Truth
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discusses Rep, John Lewis and his passion for truth.
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George W. Bush: ‘We Live in a Better and Nobler Country Today Because of John Lewis'
Former President George W. Bush paid tribute to civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis in a speech at his funeral.
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Civil Rights Icon Lewis Lauded as Hero at Georgia Capitol
John Lewis is lying in repose at the Georgia Capitol in the Atlanta district he represented for more than three decades in Congress
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Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Remembered in His Hometown
Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis is being remembered in ceremonies in the rural Alabama county where his story began
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Remembering John Lewis, Rights Icon and `American Hero'
John Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, has died
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WNBA Star A'ja Wilson Reflects on Passing of Rep. John Lewis
WNBA star A’ja Wilson discusses the passing of Rep. John Lewis and how his loss is a reminder to her to use her platform to make change.
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John Lewis, Georgia Congressman and Civil Rights Icon, Dies at 80
John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’ passing late Friday night, calling him “one of the greatest heroes of American history.”…