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  • Activists Head to Mississippi to Commemorate Freedom Summer

    Civil rights activists, youth organizers and religious leaders from around the country will travel south this week to participate in the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference. Dubbed Freedom 50, the commemoration (June 25-29) will remember the civil rights history made in Mississippi during the 1964 Freedom Summer and will create the largest convening of…

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  • 80,000 at Moral March Protest Injustice

    “Forward together, not one step back,” chanted a crowd estimated at 80,000 in Raleigh, N.C., this weekend. But along with the chants was the realization that history is repeating itself with renewed legislative battles over efforts to diminish voting rights and fights for economic justice. And these setbacks have reignited civil rights activism across the…

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