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Tag: civil rights

**FILE** Rosa Parks with Lani Guinier at a 1993 march on Washington (John Mathew Smith/www.celebrity-photos.com via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inObituary

Lani Guinier, Legal Scholar and Civil Rights Champion, Dies

by Stacy M. Brown January 8, 2022January 10, 2022

Lani Guinier, a legal scholar once nominated by President Bill Clinton as assistant attorney general and the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship at the famed Harvard Law School, has died.

Posted inNational

Kristen Clarke Confirmed by Senate as First Black Women to Head DOJ’s Civil Rights Division

by Stacy M. Brown May 25, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inOpinion

JEALOUS: Biden’s Win Means a Civil Rights Lawyer Will Lead Civil Rights Enforcement

by WI Guest Author March 3, 2021December 21, 2021
Mary Frances Berry is a University of Pennsylvania scholar and former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inUncategorized

Eisenhower and Civil Rights: The Moderate Approach

by James Wright Jr. September 23, 2020December 21, 2021
Posted inCommunity, Hamil R. Harris

Clergy Lead Peace March Honoring Legacies of Lewis and Vivian

by Hamil R. Harris July 23, 2020December 21, 2021
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Obituary

The World Mourns Death of John Lewis

by Stacy M. Brown July 23, 2020December 21, 2021
Courtesy of mappingignorance.org
Posted inNational, Stacy M. Brown

Justice Department Waives Affirmative Action Laws

by Stacy M. Brown April 8, 2020December 21, 2021
Alonzo Smith
Posted inBlack Experience

Alonzo Smith, Prominent D.C.-Area Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 79

by WI Guest Author March 23, 2020December 21, 2021
Byron Allen (Courtesy photo)
Posted inLifestyle

Byron Allen, Comcast Face Off in Supreme Court

by Sam P.K. Collins November 13, 2019December 21, 2021
Toni Morrison
Posted inMarc Morial, Op-Ed, Opinion

MORIAL: Toni Morrison’s Death a Loss for Racial Justice, Too

by WI Guest Author August 14, 2019December 21, 2021

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