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When Westboro Baptist Church began preaching hate, Bill Beachy responded with love and the Love Your Neighbor program. “Bill was an activist; He wanted to call people together and he wanted people to have their voices, ”said Jim…

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Vernon Jordan Davis (Courtesy Photo) Vernon Jordan, the former National Urban League president and civil rights activist, has died at the age of 85. Vickee Jordan Adams, the icon's daughter, confirmed his death Tuesday. "My father died…

Vernon Jordan died at the age of 85. He was seen here in November 1992 while leading the transition team for…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vernon Jordan, who grew up in the southern United States to become an influential leader in the American civil rights movement, Washington and Wall Street politics, died at the age of 85, a…

Sheila Washington, who founded a museum in Alabama dedicated to the memory of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of young black men wrongly convicted of crimes in the 1930s and who made efforts to clear their…

Ms. Washington, a native of Scottsboro, northeast Alabama, had never heard of the Scottsboro Boys or the infamous miscarriage of justice until she was 17 when she found a book hidden under a mattress in her home."You don't have to know,"…

Students in classes taught and coached decades ago by Clifton Lemelle Sr. with Paul Lawrence Dunbar in Washington, Louisiana were not just names written on a grade book.Lemelle, who taught for more than three decades and also established…

Tuesday, February 2, 2021 | 94 | 0 | min read Foster Farms reported that a 50-year-old man was killed in an industrial accident, according to a report by the Merced Sun-Star on…

Waldren T. "Pokey" Phillips, a former president of the NAACP New London office, well-known civil rights advocate and longtime Justice Marshal, died on January 23 of the aftermath of COVID-19 at Yale New Haven Hospital. He was 64 years…