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NFL icon and social activist Jim Brown leaves a complicated legacy

Jim Brown takes a break during a 1963 Cleveland Browns football game. Bettmann/Getty Images by Kenneth L. Shropshire, University of Pennsylvania Throughout his celebrated life, Jim Brown...

Mayor Reed, Atlanta leaders to celebrate 50th Anniversary of Selma march

Atlanta city officials, civil rights leaders and others will host a special event to honor the upcoming 50th anniversary of the iconic march in Selma, Ala.,…

Guest Editorial…Vigilantly await justice for shooting

Amid calls for calm after nights of protests and unrest, tensions remain high in a St. Louis suburb where an unarmed African-American teenager was...

Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer – Part II

(NNPA)--It seems that all of my life I have been infected with the participatory democracy bug. In segregated schools and being a daughter of...

Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer—Part I

(NNPA)—“History does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that...

Civil rights leaders press NBA on diversity

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders pressed for greater diversity in NBA front offices in a meeting...

Speeches, marches honor Martin Luther King Jr.

ATLANTA (AP) — As the nation remembered and reflected Monday on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., leaders and everyday Americans...

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