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Trump Signs Executive Order on Religious Freedom
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on religious freedom, allowing churches and other religious groups to assume more…
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6 Imaginative New Ways America Has Found to Punish its Poor
(Salon) – In the 1960s, the Lyndon Johnson administration launched an official War on Poverty. Needless to say, poverty has…
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NNPA President’s Statement on the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
National Newspaper Publishers Association @NNPABlackPress #NNPA #BPUSA #VoiceofBlackAmerica For Immediate Release: Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. Interim President and CEO…
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5 Things to Know About the 1964 Civil Rights Act
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law…
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Reflecting on Progress, Obama Honors Civil Rights
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Barack Obama was 2 years old when Lyndon Baines Johnson sat in…
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Pope Wants End to Economic Inequality
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of…
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