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The panel could handle cases like the three Mississippi civil rights activists - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner - who were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in June 1964.Fourteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center sent…

The Equal Rights Amendment and other advancements for women’s and civil rights hinge on the battle to eliminate an antidemocratic Senate tactic.Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) advocating for ending the Senate filibuster, outside the U.S.…

Almost every African American in the US knew about Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race massacre in 1921. We also knew that no one had ever been thereindicted for the killings and denied all…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wasted no time collapsing Tuesday afternoon after talks between the Biden White House and McConnell's hand-picked deputy, Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). "If you look at what the Majority…

Exclusive - UFW, civil rights activist Huerta: Farms and political structures in the Central Valley are reminiscent of the Jim Crow era YourCentralValley.com

The US Supreme Court announced Monday morning that it would take up a case in Mississippi that bans abortion after 15 weeks. Legal experts say a conservative majority of 6 to 3, and after years of right-wing pressure, including spending…

Stateside's conversation with Matt Lassiter Digital tools that allow people to show each other what is going on in their lives in real time have changed the way…

ROXBURY TWP. - The civil rights movement on Black Lives Matter and its relationship was the subject of a talk given on Wednesday April 28th by the Roxbury Borough Public Library.The Roxbury Township Public…

John Archibald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist, was born 11 days before Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Prison". Photo by Paul…

This is an opinion.The county government was kind enough to allow me to claim an unclaimed spot in the parking lot for the free screening of the movie "Selma" at Legion Field in Covington last weekend. The Newton County Bicentennial…