Three schools in Montgomery, Alabama, still carry the names of Confederate figures. Montgomery Public Schools Superintendent Melvin Brown is fighting to change that. CNN’s Nadia […]
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The death of Jimmie Lee Jackson and the path to Bloody Sunday | USA TODAY
Before the Selma to Montgomery march, there was a night march in Marion where Jimmie Lee Jackson was murdered by an Alabama State Trooper in […]
Continue readingRacial Inequality In U.S., 65 Years After Rosa Parks’ Montgomery Bus Boycott | The Last Word | MSNBC
On the 65th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, author and professor Michael Eric Dyson tells Lawrence O’Donnell that despite great progress, […]
Continue readingRep. John Lewis remembered in Alabama | USA TODAY
Rep. John Lewis's casket was taken across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Sunday. RELATED: Lewis was beaten and tear–gassed as he and […]
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