civil rights
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Rep. John Lewis to Receive Prestigious Honor at 51st NAACP Image Awards
Congressman John Lewis—not to be mistaken for the late Elijah Cummings—will be honored for his decades of civil rights activism and congressional service at the 51st NAACP Image Awards later this month. According to the NAACP, the 79-year-old icon will receive the prestigious Chairman’s Award in honor of his “lifelong dedication of protecting human rights,…
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Hoodwinked History: How False Civil Rights Narratives Distort Modern Freedom Struggles
Black history is American history. Full stop. But somehow the narratives we’re taught often grossly misrepresent the history of black people in America. After all, a true and full history of the United States would require a reckoning of a not-so-great country, one that’s mired in hate and fear. The history of the civil rights…
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What Geraldo Rivera Left in Al Capone’s Vault
In April of 1986, Geraldo Rivera hosted a two-hour live exclusive called, sadly, The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults, which was hyped up as an unveiling of whatever secrets the former mob boss left behind. Some 30 million people tuned in to watch what everyone believed was going to be a bounty of riches. After…
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NAACP Lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill Blasts Amtrak Conductor for Asking Her to Give Up Seat
They got the right one on the wrong day! The head of NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund went off on social media about an Amtrak employee who asked her to give up her seat on the train to accommodate someone else—on the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. WTF Is Really Going On?…
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I'll Take 'Sobbing' for 500: Alex Trebek Supports Rep. John Lewis in Fighting Pancreatic Cancer
Let’s get this sentiment out of the way—fuck cancer. At the end of 2019, U.S. Representative John Lewis confirmed he was battling Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, noting he will continue serving Georgia’s 5th congressional district. According to AP News, acclaimed Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek publicly acknowledged and supported the congressman and civil rights leader. He…
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Fifth-Grade Student Asked to Portray a Slave for Class Assignment
It’s starting to feel like schools really need to examine how they teach slavery because damn, y’all. This is the second story of this nature to break within just the last month. NBC News reports that a black fifth-grader was asked to portray a slave during a lesson on the Civil War and Reconstruction at…