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Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 tackled voter suppression in the United States. While it significantly increased the ...
Hattiesburg American on MSN1d
Group to hold meeting about possible new legislative district for Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg could possibly get a new legislator once Mississippi lawmakers redraw district lines after a federal court ...
St. Bonaventure University1d
Sixty years later: A look back at the civil rights marches in Selma
Sr. Lum’s other nursing positions include Good Samaritan School of Practical Nursing in Selma, St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in Elmira, New York, University of Rochester Nursing and Nurse ...
Review: The arguments in ‘Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley’ are startlingly current today
On Feb. 18, 1965, the famed Cambridge Union at Britain’s University of Cambridge held a debate between James Baldwin, the ...
WSB remembers Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama with John Lewis
They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...
WTEN Albany on MSN4d
New York Voting Rights Act ruled constitutional after court reversal
The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, Second Department, upheld the constitutionality of New York’s Voting ...
Opinion
Keller board driving school split doesn’t represent community. Here’s how to fix it | Opinion
The push to divide the school district comes from trustees elected entirely from one part of it, a flaw of at-large voting. | Opinion ...
Artists behind Montgomery MAGA Bloody Sunday billboard: Removal a ‘clear act of censorship’
The image juxtaposed Donald Trump's political slogan with a photo of state troopers confronting civil rights marchers in ...
Rutgers University23h
New Book Tells the Story of the Most Influential Black Woman You’ve Never Heard Of
Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, an associate professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations, explores this ...
WBOC2d
Wicomico County Moves Forward with New Map
SALISBURY, Md.- The Wicomico County Council voted to redistrict Wicomico County Tuesday night.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution6d
Vouchers for private schools may add up to segregation in Georgia classrooms
In 1954, with the issue of school desegregation on the minds of Georgia’s politicians, the state approved a constitutional amendment permitting state funds to be utilized for private school vouchers.