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Julian Bond: A Dedicated Life of Service
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Horace Julian Bond was born Jan. 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tenn. into a…
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Why Civil Rights Leader Diane Nash Refused to March at Selma
Abby Phillip, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—One of the civil rights movement’s most prominent leaders was absent from the…
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DuBois and Trotter: My Civil Rights Heroes
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a W.E.B. DuBois…
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Don’t Forget Malcolm X in 50th Anniversary Celebrations
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist The 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March, and the…
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Jimmie Lee Jackson Inspired Selma March
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Although Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis captured the headlines, it…
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Oprah Suffers Twitter Backlash for Comments about Protesters
Tom Kludt, CNNMoney NEW YORK (CNNMoney)—Oprah Winfrey, meet the leaders of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. In a recent interview, Winfrey…
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Civil Rights Leaders at Odds as Ferguson Protests Grow
Yamiche Alchidor, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Protests against police treatment of black people have laid bare growing tensions between longstanding…
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Questions Rising over Who’s in Charge of Protests
Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Who, if anyone, is leading the emerging movement around the deaths…
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The Black Athlete: Marion Barry Jr.—A Tribute from His Biographer
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist My admiration of Marion Barry Jr., who died Nov. 23, began long before I…
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