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From MLK to today, the March on Washington highlights the evolution of activism by Black churches
The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Kamala Harris to mark ‘Bloody Sunday’ anniversary in Selma
Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Alabama this weekend to commemorate a key moment of the civil rights movement.
Remembering John Lewis, civil rights icon and `American hero’
People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very beginning — when he was just a kid wanting to be a minister someday — his audience didn’t care much for what he had to say.
Better Late than Never: House makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Emmett Till
Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law.
Hairy Issues: Legislation passes in New Jersey to end discrimination against natural hair in New Jersey
EEW Magazine Online commends New Jersey for becoming the third state to ban discrimination against black students and employees over their natural hairstyles. The CROWN Act—Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural hair— passed in the state legislature of New Jersey.
Rest Well: Juanita Abernathy, business plan writer for 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, dies at 88
Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and took other influential steps in helping to build the American civil rights movement, died Thursday. She was 88. A family spokesman confirmed she died following complications from a stroke.
Racial Divide: MLK daughter Bernice King ‘struggling real bad’ with ‘white evangelical church’
Dr. Bernice King, youngest daughter of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., admits she has an issue with some of her white Christian counterparts that seem okay with the racially divisive climate of the day. “I’m struggling real bad with my brothers and sisters in the white evangelical church,” she confesses.