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2/27/20

10:17 AM

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Black Excellence2/27/20

Black Excellence2/27/20

UT Arlington's Men's Basketball Team Honors Black Historical Figures With Pre-Game Shirts: 'We Want to Educate, We Want to Inform'

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2/10/20

2:34 PM

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Unpack ThatThe Root2/10/20

Unpack ThatThe Root2/10/20

Hoodwinked History: How False Civil Rights Narratives Distort Modern Freedom Struggles

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1/19/20

3:30 PM

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NAACP Lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill Blasts Amtrak Conductor for Asking Her to Give Up Seat

Karu F. Daniels

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11/5/19

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Social Justice11/5/19

Social Justice11/5/19

Library of Congress Announces New Exhibit, Book Telling Rosa Parks’ Story In Her Own Words

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8/26/19

10:00 AM

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Black Excellence8/26/19

Black Excellence8/26/19

On Women’s Equality Day, Mattel Honors the ‘Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement’ With the Rosa Parks Barbie

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4/3/19

4:00 PM

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White Power Symbol Discovered After Fire Destroys Historic Civil Rights Center

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12/18/18

2:13 PM

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A Rosa Parks Feature Biopic May Be Coming to Theaters for the First Time

Tonja Renée Stidhum

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1/21/18

10:25 AM

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Viola Davis Slays Her 2018 Women’s March Speech: ‘Nothing and No One Can Be Great Without a Cost’

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1/8/18

2:40 PM

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The Movement1/8/18

The Movement1/8/18

Rosa Parks, Recy Taylor and Gertrude Perkins Are Mothers of the #MeToo Movement

Kirsten West Savali

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12/28/17

8:17 PM

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Recy Taylor, Catalyst for Anti-Rape Activism in the Jim Crow South, Dead at 97

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9/26/17

9:00 AM

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The Rape of Recy Taylor Looks Back at a Horrific but Largely Forgotten Case From the Jim Crow South

Kiratiana Freelon

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9/7/17

10:49 AM

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The Story of Rosa Parks’ Detroit Home Reveals Hard Truths About Her Life in the ‘Northern Promised Land That Wasn’t’

Jeanne Theoharis

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4/13/17

2:14 PM

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No, Dr. Dao Is Not an Asian Version of Rosa Parks

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7/15/16

5:52 AM

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The Movement7/15/16

The Movement7/15/16

MLK Would Never Shut Down a Freeway, and 6 Other Myths About the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter

Jeanne Theoharis

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12/3/15

2:19 PM

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Rosa Parks Thinks You’re a Bitch.

Michael Harriot

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