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Biden honors Black leaders with Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Congressman James E. Clyburn. (Photo: DreamInColor Photo / NNPA) by Stacy M. Brown and Ashleigh Fields, The Washington...

COVID-19 was ‘Bloody Sunday’ for America’s racial health disparities; Yet, there is little progress

Dr. Yolanda Lawson (Courtesy photo) by Hazel Trice Edney, TriceEdneyWire.com   Thousands of Black people had protested, and many had died at the hands of police, White...

Fred Gray, the ‘chief counsel for the protest movement,’ to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

by Jonathan Entin, Case Western Reserve University Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King...

Atlanta Icon John Lewis honored by President Obama at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge

SELMA, Ala. — Atlanta’s legendary Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) shows unequivocally that, even 50 years later, the events of “Bloody Sunday” at the Edmund Pettus…

Oprah and ‘Selma’ cast to march in Alabama to honor Martin Luther King

Media magnate and Selma producer Oprah Winfrey will join the cast members in a march Sunday in Selma, Ala. to commemorate the birthday of Martin…

John Lewis’ message to Scalia: Voting Rights are “What people died for & bled for”

Congressman John Lewis   by Victor Trammell (blackbluedog.com)--It can go without saying that Congressman John Lewis, (D) Georgia, is a legendary hero of...

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