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MLK Jr.’s Fight for Civil Rights Was an Environmental Battle as Well
Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...
A lost chapter in Boston’s civil rights struggle, unearthed
On the site where The Embrace memorializes Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King once stood a social club that ...
Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to undo the Civil War
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...
Civil rights advisor Bayard Rustin helped inform Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘dream’
His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...
GOP-led states are emboldened to keep rolling back trans rights. Democrats struggle with a response
Every major U.S. medical group, including the American Medical Association, has opposed the bans and said gender-affirming ...
Rename MLK Day to be National Civil Rights Day
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the face of a movement that transformed a country in which 10% of its people were ...
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Civil rights advisor Bayard Rustin helped inform Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘dream’
Nevertheless, objectively speaking, those are the influences that he had, really helping Dr. King to fully embrace the role of nonviolence and pacifism as a part of a civil rights struggle ...
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GOP-led states are emboldened to keep rolling back trans rights. Democrats struggle with a response
Democrats are reckoning with voter backlash while not abandoning what they see as a civil rights issue. Kansas state Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat, said it’s hard to conclude that ...
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Rev. Al Sharpton: Trump's attacks on civil rights show 'profound ignorance'
It's taken Donald Trump less than a week to reverse decades of progress on racial equality, including pausing all of the ...