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Dr. King’s March on the Ballot Boxes Is Under Threat Today
The Republican Party is hellbent on voter suppression. Will the Democrats put up a real fight?
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If You’re A Republican Lawmaker Planning To Post An MLK Quote On Monday, Just Don’t.
Republicans take MLK day off or better yet, tell the truth about his history.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tests Positive For COVID-19 in Latest Omicron Surge Through Congress
"She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home,” the office for New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a statement.
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Woman Arrested For Alleged Assault On Delta Airlines Flight Made Rosa Parks Remark, Court Documents State
"What am I, Rosa Parks?" was the alleged statement that set everything off
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Civil Rights Champion Claudette Colvin Sees Her Juvenile Record Expunged 66 Years After Arrest Over Bus Seat
"The hardship and intimidation that took place in those years and the reason I took a stand to defy the segregated law," Covin says as record is cleared.
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Reverend Jesse Jackson Hospitalized After Fall at Howard University
The civil rights leader was visiting the students protesting their living conditions at Howard when he fell and hit his head.
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Alabama May Consider Wiping the Arrest Records Clean for Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks
Alabama officials are considering a bid to clear arrest records of civil rights icons Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, both convicted in the 1950s.
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Rosa Parks Got the Glory. Claudette Colvin Just Wants Her Record Expunged
Colvin was 15 when she refused to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus in 1955, nine months before Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
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Connecticut Tobacco Field Where Martin Luther King Jr. Worked Will Be Named a Historical Site
Martin Luther King Jr. worked at Meadowood to help pay for his college tuition.