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Bob Moses updatesSubscribe to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Bob Moses news. Activist Robert “Bob” Moses was less well known than Martin Luther King Jr, but the New York math teacher had a lasting impact on…

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, speaks during a subcommittee hearing on the Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigation of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 4, 2017.WASHINGTON - US…

Fourteen large cities, mostly in the southern part of the country, are home to some of the most important US civil rights landmarks.Topeka and the Brown v. Board National Historic Site are two of the most recognizable sites in the…

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN - A block in Bed-Stuy was officially named in honor of a prominent civil rights attorney who died in 2015.The section of Decatur Street between Lewis and Stuyvesant Avenues was recently named the "Jacqueline Berrien Way"…

Law360 (July 29, 2021, 9:24 p.m. EDT) - A federal judge in New Jersey has denied a city's new offer to commence a civil rights lawsuit by a former state attorney for her arrest for allegedly harboring her fugitive ex-boyfriend. on…

LEXINGTON, Kentucky - On separate charges, two former law enforcement officers working for the Federal Medical Center of the Bureau of Prisons in Lexington were charged with federal civil rights violations and sexual abuse.A…

(The Conversation is an independent, nonprofit source of news, analysis, and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) As the organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Bob Moses…

By Marian Wright EdelmanAs a teenager, many of Barbara John's wildest fantasies revolved around a surprising topic: a new school. “My imagination ran wild - and I dreamed that a powerful man with great fortune would…

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WAVE) - After 112 murders in less than seven months, a prominent civil rights activist appealed to unity to stop the runaway gun violence in Louisville."I want us to stop pointing fingers," said Reverend Charles…

Rhode Island civil rights activist Clifford R. Montiero speaks with Boston Globe reporter Edward Fitzpatrick while taping the Rhode Island Report podcast.Carlos MunozPROVIDENCE - Rhode Island civil rights icon, Clifford R. Montiero,…