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The Racial Wealth Accumulation Gap and Why ACLU is Suing Morgan Stanley for Racial Discrimination
By Greger Calhan This month, the Urban Institute joined an emerging consensus of researchers and social scientists with a new report revealing, in the starkest terms, our nation’s vast and widening racial gap in wealth creation. With this report, Less than … Continue reading
Commentary: Congress Honors Four Little Black Girls and American Resolve
By Jonathan P. Hicks It has been nearly 50 years since four young Black girls were killed in a bombing in a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama at the height of the civil rights movement. And to commemorate that horrific … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Alabama, Birmingham Church Bombing, Boston Marathon Bombings, civil rights movement, Congressional Gold Medal, Fred Shuttlesworth, George Wallace, Martin Luther King Jr., Osama Bin Laden, Ralph David Abernathy
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Six Women Pardoned for Civil Rights-Era Arrests
The women should not have been arrested. The pardon should have occurred at least 30 years ago. Six Women Pardoned for Civil Rights-Era Arrests.
Rosa Parks Had a Radical Side: Championing the Rights of Rape Victims
A fascinating article that offers a glimpse of a side of Rosa Parks that is not explained in history books, nor is readily known. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance — a New … Continue reading
Civil Rights Photographer Unmasked as Informant
Wow!! History reveals itself everyday. It is not surprising that the FBI was able to penetrate the inner sanctum of the civil rights movement so deeply. J. Edgar Hoover considered the movement as domestic terrorism in today’s vernacular. As my … Continue reading
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