The Washington Post on MSN16d
The naming of RFK Stadium was a classic tale of Washington intrigue
In the final days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, his Interior Department pulled a fast one on him, renaming ...
RNS on MSN11d
The budgets coming to Congress would bend the moral arc away from justice
Those of us committed to continuing King’s dream should be outraged by the unjust economic proposals being advanced by the ...
seattlepi.com11d
Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble
He helped found the Congress of Racial Equality and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ... the seminal event in American civil rights history – the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and ...
MinnPost15d
Anoka’s Anna Arnold Hedgeman, the only woman on the March on Washington planning committee
Hedgeman urged the male members of the march's planning committee to have a woman speaker, but they initially refused.
Trump isn’t the first to upend the federal workforce because of race
President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had ...
The New York Times24d
Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82
When he returned to campus, he saw an ad from the Congress of Racial Equality looking for volunteers for a trip by commercial bus from Washington to New Orleans. Along the way, the ad said ...
States including Oregon and Washington sue to stop Trump’s order blocking birthright citizenship
Attorneys general from 22 states have sued to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a century-old immigration policy ...
FOX 5 Atlanta26d
Youngest original 'Freedom Rider' dies in Fayetteville at 82
He attended Morehouse College, but at 18, he left school to board a bus headed for Washington ... leadership of James Farmer from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Then, Person, along ...
AllAfrica.com on MSN7h
South Africa's Land Inequality Persists Despite Decades of Reforms
Land ownership in South Africa remains a deeply divisive issue, with racial disparities persisting three decades after the end of apartheid.
Boston Herald9d
Gaskin: Doris Bland’s peaceful welfare revolution
A co-chair of the Congress of Racial Equality’s (CORE ... including the 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March. She joined Dr. King in a 1965 march from Roxbury to ...
Long Island Press22d
MLK’s Great Neck visits strengthen Civil Rights mission
Great Neck became an unlikely yet vital waypoint in King’s journey for racial equality. At a time when ... like the NAACP and the American Jewish Congress frequently collaborated and Jewish ...