freedom riders
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60 Years Later, Freedom Riders Roll into Birmingham
Dozens of patrons visited the parking lot of the Birmingham Public Library’s Central Branch last week to tour a traveling…
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From Young Troublemakers to Legends: Celebrating the Legacies of CT Vivian and John Lewis
Bayard Rustin, the co-founder of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, once said,…
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Former Freedom Riders Tell Their Story
Fifty years after laying their bodies on the line to integrate the South, three '60s-era civil rights activists known as…
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BUSINESS EXCHANGE: A Look at Henry ‘Hank’ James Thomas
When will blacks realize that they will live better pursuing business over politics? While most civil rights leaders became politicians,…
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John Lewis Still Standing for Civil Rights, MLK
Rep. John Lewis rankled President-elect Donald Trump when he told NBC News' "Meet the Press" in an exclusive interview that…
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The ‘Freedom Riders’ of Australia
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist One day in late February 1965, an interracial group of 29 university students…
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Child Watch: “Ask What You Can Do For Your Country”
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger…
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Blackonomics: Economic Freedom Riders
by James Clingman NNPA Columnist “I was tired of giving in.” – Rosa Parks It is always interesting to reflect…
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