This Black church sued the Proud Boys and won its trademark, carrying on a civil rights legacy
Despite the humor and subversion, Lamar sees the lawsuit as part of a long line of civil rights activism that has relied on ...
A historic Black church took the Proud Boys to court. Now it controls their trademark
It made history again this year: Thanks to a lawsuit, Metropolitan AME now controls the trademark to the Proud Boys, the ...
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Fred Gray represented MLK and Rosa Parks. Now he's calling for a new civil rights movement
Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was beaten in Alabama while working to integrate the interstate bus system as a ...
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Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement
It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and early ’50s. Getting her political start with the Scottsboro Boys case in the ...
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Detroit's Rosa Parks Building on list of federal assets that could be sold
The Rosa Parks Federal Building ... in 1955 led to a bus boycott and fueled the modern Civil Rights Movement. She later moved to Detroit, where she remained for the rest of her life, working ...
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Patrons Visit a Smithsonian Museum Under Siege
Explore the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a beacon of African-American history, under threat from ...
The Conversation29d
Consumer resistance is rising in the age of Trump. History shows how boycotts can be effective
In Britain, the abolitionist movement appealed to women as household ... Some 75 years later, across the Atlantic, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman ...
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Seabrook resident reflects on his time with MLK, the Civil Rights Movement and Selma
The Civil Rights Movement is an effort to claim one's humanity ... The civil rights activists of the phase that started with Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott arrived at Penn as the ...
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Secret schools that emboldened Rosa Parks, John Lewis, and fueled the Civil Rights Movement
Elaine Weiss is author of "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement." She joins the exchange to shed light on a relatively obscure role that a mountaintop folk ...