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RESCUED ROSA PARKS HOUSE DUE TO RETURN TO AMERICA
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit has expressed interest, but Mendoza has not yet discussed it with them... READ MORE›
ROSA PARKS HOME, SAVED FROM DETROIT RAZING AND REASSEMBLED IN BERLIN, TO RETURN TO U.S. TO BE 'CAUSE OF ACTION'
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit has expressed interest, but Mendoza has not yet discussed it with them... READ MORE›
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'AMERICA HAS DONE A TERRIBLE JOB OF TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT RACISM'
This arc, from slavery through these more modern iterations of racial inequality speaks to the museums core mission... READ MORE›
NAACP PRESIDENT, OTHERS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY DURING SESSIONS SIT-IN
Jeff Sessions, a Republican who is President-elect Donald Trump's choice... READ MORE›
US HOUSING BOSS BEN CARSON CALLS US SLAVES 'IMMIGRANTS'
Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, has compared slaves to immigrants, on his first day in his new job... READ MORE›
OPINION WHAT MLK MIGHT SAY TO DONALD TRUMP
Yet the genius of King and the larger civil rights movement is in unleashing the power of ideas that transcend political leaders, democratic institutions, even nation-states... READ MORE›
AFTER PARIS ATTACKS, GOVERNORS REFUSE SYRIAN REFUGEES
The United States should be a safe haven, said Dr. Yahya Basha, a Syrian-American advocate from West Bloomfield, Mich., who has family members who are refugees... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S PICK FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL IS SHADOWED BY RACE AND HISTORY
Sen. Jeff Sessions is a conservative stalwart and a lightning rod for civil rights activists... READ MORE›
EDITORIAL THE END OF FEDERALLY FINANCED GHETTOS
Local governments will not be expected to solve the segregation problem alone but will be encouraged to join with other jurisdictions in the region... READ MORE›
US NEWSPAPER ACCUSED OF LIBERAL BIAS AFTER USING IMAGE OF SELMA ANNIVERSARY MARCH ON FRONT PAGE SHOWING BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA BUT WITH GEORGE AND LAURA BUSH MISSING
Mr Bush made no remarks, but rose to his feet to applaud Mr Obama, and the two men hugged afterward, it notes... READ MORE›
SNOOP DOGG RAILS AGAINST 'ROOTS' IN EXPLETIVE-FILLED VIDEO
Photo Casey Crafford Snoop Dogg saysA he won'tA watch Roots and callsA upon other African-AmericansA to follow suit... READ MORE›
WORLDS OLDEST PERSON DIES IN NEW YORK AT AGE 116
Post to Facebook Worlds oldest person dies in New York at age 116 Susannah Mushatt Jones was born in a small farm town near Montgomery, Alabama, in 1899... READ MORE›
MLK DAY WHY ON MONDAY AND WHAT WAS STEVIE WONDERS ROLE
Heres a rundown of how Martin Luther King, Jr. Day came to be a federal holiday... READ MORE›
WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON SUSANNAH MUSHATT JONES DIES AGED 116
World's oldest person Susannah Mushatt Jones dies aged 116... READ MORE›
TRUMP MAKES PUZZLING CLAIM ABOUT ANDREW JACKSON, CIVIL WAR
But Jackson died in 1845, and the Civil War didn't begin until 16 years later, in 1861... READ MORE›
ALABAMA CHIEF JUSTICE SUSPENDED OVER DEFYING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULING
Lawyers for the Judicial Inquiry Commission told the court that Chief Justice Roy Moore has been on a mission to block gay marriage in Alabama... READ MORE›
JACK DANIEL'S WANTS YOU TO KNOW ABOUT NEARIS GREEN, THE SLAVE BEHIND THE WORLD'S BEST-SELLING WHISKEY
A slave named Nearis Green taught Jasper Jack Daniels how to distill Tennessee whiskey... READ MORE›
CORETTA SCOTT KING'S LETTER ELIZABETH WARREN WAS STOPPED FROM READING IN US SENATE
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States... READ MORE›
MUSLIMS IN VEILS ARE LIKE 'AMERICAN NEGROES' WHO SUPPORTED SLAVERY, FRENCH MINISTER SAYS
Muslims in veils are like 'American negroes' who supported slavery, French minister says... READ MORE›
WORLD WAR II FLIER LAID TO REST AFTER 70 YEARS
Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr. died in June 1944 when his plane crashed on Guadalcanal... READ MORE›
MAN WHO LINKED ARMS WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING ON SELMA BRIDGE CONDEMNS TRUMP'S NFL ATTACK
Ms Washington said she was originally from New York and had long been aware of Mr Trump and his beliefs... READ MORE›
JEFF SESSIONS, A RIGHT-WING HAWK TO LEAD THE US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's pick for US attorney-general, is known as a right-wing, anti-immigration hardliner... READ MORE›
TRUMP CRITICIZES CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER LEWIS ON EVE OF MLK DAY
Donald Trump criticized African American civil-rights leader John Lewis a day after the Georgia congressman said he doesn't consider him a legitimate president... READ MORE›
FIRST BLACK MISS ALA. ON LEAVE FROM TV JOB AFTER CALLING DALLAS COP-KILLER A 'MARTYR'
James, who was crowned Miss Alabama in 1993, told WPMI-TV that she has received multiple death threats since posting the Facebook live video on Sunday... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP PICKS ALABAMA'S JEFF SESSIONS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
President-elect Donald Trump has settled on Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, according to two people familiar with the matter... READ MORE›
FIFTY YEARS AFTER SELMA'S 'BLOODY SUNDAY', THE BATTLE FOR EQUALITY RAGES ON
Fifty years after Selma's'Bloody Sunday', the battle for equality rages on... READ MORE›
U. OF KENTUCKY SHROUDS A 1934 MURAL THAT DEPICTS AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES
Details from the O'Hanlon mural inside Memorial Hall... READ MORE›
PROTESTERS SHOULD LET TRUMP AIR HIS HATE
Amid growing security concerns, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign canceled a Chicago rally on March 11... READ MORE›
EXTRAORDINARY IMAGES OF THE SELMA MARCH SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME
Civil-rights leaders including King enter Montgomery Dan Budnik Budnik's book is dedicated to Charles Alston, the teacher he shared with Lawrence... READ MORE›
GAY COUPLES IN ALABAMA MAKE HISTORY AS CONTROVERSIAL JUDGE FAILS TO STOP SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
But while some judges in Alabama complied with Mr Moore's directive and refused to issue marriage licences, a number of other judges handed them out... READ MORE›
HARPER LEE: AUTHOR BATTLED TO RECONCILE RACIAL JUSTICE WITH A RACIALLY UNJUST SOCIETY
Writer's 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer prize - was originally a response to the Montgomery bus boycott four years earlier... READ MORE›
SELMA U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS MILESTONE MARKED BY FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT
America's racial history still casts its long shadow upon us, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he stood in solidarity and remembrance with civil r... READ MORE›