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NAACP release new report: ‘Misplaced Priorities: Over Incarcerate, Under Educate’
Misplaced Priorities tracks the steady shift of state funds away from education and toward the criminal justice system.
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The Daily: [Trailer] Aoki “We didn’t lose in the 60’s … we just didn’t finish the job”
Not all of the Panther’s were Black. Watch the movie trailer about Richard Aoki a forgotten leader of the Black Panther Movement and the Civil Rights movement.
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Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Bill Russel, Maya Angelou and civil rights leaders
The President quoted Angelou, saying, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again,” and bent down to kiss her cheek as he presented her with the medal.
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[Video] Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech
If you’ve never seen the full speech before or, if you haven’t seen it in awhile and you’re looking for a little inspiration… watch the video
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Schools in GA, NC, and SC open on MLK Day to make up snow closings
A decision to use the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to make up a snow day in Georgia and the Carolinas has infuriated civil rights leaders, who say the districts are insulting the civil rights icon.
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The Daily: Dorothy Counts and the others before us. Shake That Load Off #Liberation
A daily tribute to the Civil Rights era, to our forefathers and foremothers. To those with no name but who counted.
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The Daily: Looking for Claudia Jones, a Black Stock Film
Enemy of the state, visionary, freedom fighter, rebel with a cause – just who was Claudia Jones?