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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,…

2021-03-15 A new federal designation could help preserve Glenwood Cemetery in Huntsville, the city's oldest surviving black cemetery.An integral part of the city's history, Glenwood is the resting place of people who were born slaves,…

President Joe Biden said his predecessor "allowed the coronavirus to spread uncontrollably" and then, in his first address to the nation that marked the one, spoke to the hopes and sorrows, dreams and deaths, losses and loves…

DETROIT - Detroit's significant role in the growth of the civil rights movement was recognized by the National Park Service when five locations were added to the National Register of Historic Places.Birwood Wall, the New Bethel Baptist…

Detroit's significant role in the rise of the civil rights movement was recently recognized by the National Park Service with the listing of five historic local sites linked to the struggle for equality and the black community in the 20th…

MARK PAZNIOKAS :: CTMIRROR.ORGPatricia Billie Miller MP, who says she wears African-influenced clothes for the meeting, spoke out in favor of a bill to protect black women from hair discrimination. The stories were…

Every worker in the US would have access to paid vacation benefits under a measure proposed by US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. The FAMILY Act would cover workers regardless of the size of their employer or if they are self-employed and…

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…

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