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Simone Biles, Denzel Washington Among New Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
Nurse Sandra Lindsay, civil rights activists Diane Nash and Fred Gray will also be honored.
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Anthony Mackie to Open 20-Acre Film and TV Studio in New Orleans
‘The influx of productions will not only bring economic growth but job opportunities!’ New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.
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Spark: Anthony Mackie to Make Feature Directorial Debut About Civil Rights Icon Claudette Colvin
The upcoming film will center around the little known story of 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her bus seat in 1955.
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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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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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Rosa Parks, Recy Taylor and Gertrude Perkins Are Mothers of the #MeToo Movement
In 2016, former Oklahoma City Police Officer and rapist Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison for the rapes and sexual assaults of seven black women and one black girl, ranging in age from 17 to 58. He was found guilty of 18 of 36 charges, including four charges of first-degree rape, one…