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At the end of the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech on the steps of the Alabama state ...
The more relevant, and worrying, parallel may be the period from 1957 to the end of 1968, when military forces actively ...
The fourth edition of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Unity Tour began on Thursday and will run until Sunday, with each ACC member institution invited to send six representatives—four ...
(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...
For the first time in 60 years, a U.S. president has deployed the National Guard without a governor's approval. That time, ...
From pig ears to "white sauce" to the legendary ribs that fed the civil rights movement, Alabama has a diverse and tangy ...
Deep-cut case law and 19th century constitutional interpretation underpin the Trump administration argument for deploying ...
It’s a global phenomenon: protest movements almost always seem to generate unintended consequences and often lack leadership ...
With demonstrators led by Martin Luther King Jr on a five-day march from Selma to Alabama's capital Montgomery, governor George Wallace pledged National Guard security -- but then reneged. The U-turn ...
A Chester County-based organization promoting racial healing through storytelling is working with Longwood Gardens, Lincoln ...
The Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past organization will host a variety of activities, lectures and programs to honor several key anniversaries of events in the civil rights movement and ensure young ...
Carol Jenkins, the former longtime WNBC News anchor, was recently honored at the New Jewish Home’s Eight Over Eighty Gala.