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AL Restores Voting Rights of Ex-Felons But They May Never Find Out

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Alabama does not have to notify tens of thousands of former felons that they recently regained the right to vote, a federal judge ruled. The judge also found that the state does not have to […]

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Trump Treasury Secretary Won’t Commit to Putting Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

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By Damian Paletta, washingtonpost.com Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday would not commit to carrying out the Obama administration’s plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, saying he had not made a decision […]

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King Statue to Stand Alongside Confederates in Georgis Capital

September 1, 2017 Staff 0

by Johnny Kauffman On Monday, 54 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech and less than a month after a counterprotester was killed following a demonstration by white […]

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America’s Clergy Unite for 1,000 Ministers March in Washington Against White Supremacy

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

  by Adelle Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) — From Protestant preachers to Jewish cantors to Catholic nuns, religious leaders of a range of faiths demonstrated in the nation’s capital for racial justice, criticizing the silence of […]

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Black Christian University Professor Suspended After Saying Some BLM Members ‘Should Be Hung’

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

A Black professor at a Christian university in Phoenix has been suspended after a video clip revealed him making troubling remarks about activists in the Black Lives Matter movement. Professor Toby Jennings, of Grand Canyon […]

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Emmett Till: 62nd Anniversary Of Lynching Reignites Calls For Apology

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

Sixty-two years ago on August 28, Carolyn Bryant Donham, a White woman, told a lie that got a fourteen year-old boy killed. The 62nd anniversary comes just days after the nation witnessed racial terror inCharlottesville, Virginia, […]

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More Chaos in Houston as Floodwaters Rise to Roof Lines

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

Rain from Tropical Storm Harvey falls as a firefighter is wheeled to a waiting ambulance after he became fatigued while fighting an office building fire in downtown in Houston, Texas, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (AP […]

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Florida NAACP Calls on Governor to Remove All Confederate Symbols at the State Capitol, Ban from Public Property Statewide

August 24, 2017 Staff 0

The NAACP Florida State Conference has called on Florida Governor Rick Scott to remove all Confederate symbols at the State Capitol and requested legislative leaders to support a ban from public property statewide. The movement […]

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Secret Service Says it Will Run Out of Money to Protect Trump and his Family Sept. 30

August 23, 2017 Staff 0

By Lisa Rein, washingtonpost.com The Secret Service said Monday that it has enough money to cover the cost of protecting President Trump and his family through the end of September, but after that the agency […]

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Dick Gregory, Civil Rights Activist and Innovative Comedian, Dies at 84

August 21, 2017 Staff 0

Dick Gregory By Stacy M Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Legendary civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory died on Saturday. He was 84. Friends, family and celebrities took to social media to honor the icon […]

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