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The National Civil Rights Museum will study the life and death of Dr. Mark Martin Luther King Jr. 53 years after his murder in Memphis with a special virtual reminder on Sunday evening. The museum, which is closed on Sundays - although…

Memphis, TN, March 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - The National Civil Rights Museum at Lorraine Motel will host a virtual memorial service in honor of Dr. Presenting King's Life and Legacy. Due to the pandemic, this is the museum's second…

Memphis, TN, March 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - From Queen Nzingha to Shirley Chisholm to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, The Black Woman has worked to overcome racial prejudice and gender oppression. To celebrate Women's History Month,…

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,"…

Memphis, TN, February 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - During the publication of the 25th anniversary edition of The Watsons Go to Birmingham (1963), Christopher Paul Curtis discusses the generations with famous author and poet Jason Reynolds in…

Memphis, TN, Feb. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - The National Civil Rights Museum at Lorraine Motel announced that it will be welcoming visitors again on March 1, following health agency restrictions in December to protect the museum's closure…

An institute that will highlight the historic efforts of residents of the Inland Empire to advance civil rights and advocate modern civil rights concerns is coming to downtown Riverside. The Civil Rights Institute in California's interior,…

An institute that will highlight the historic efforts of residents of the Inland Empire to advance civil rights and advocate modern civil rights concerns is coming to downtown Riverside. The Civil Rights Institute in California's interior,…

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