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The life story of one of South Florida’s most influential newspapermen, Bill Baggs is the April title of the Sundial Book Club.
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The Equal Justice Initiative addresses America's history of racial violence at a time when state lawmakers nationwide have been trying to limit teaching about divisive topics in public schools.
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Earthjustice and Florida Rising filed a complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday.
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A mantra for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is to explore American History through an African American lens.
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"We have to show that we are not afraid," Dillard University President Walter Kimbrough says. The FBI is probing the threats as racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and hate crimes.
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The Rooney Rule, a policy that went into effect in 2003, requires NFL teams to interview candidates of color for head coaching and senior operation vacancies.
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A coalition of media groups says restrictions on access to the federal civil rights trial of three former Minneapolis police officers amount to an unconstitutional closing of the courtroom.
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The Florida activist who led a movement to allow most former felons to vote got more civil rights restored under a new state clemency program.
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Efforts to pass other federal voting rights legislation have stalled in the closely divided Senate, as Democrats try to counter voting restrictions enacted in Republican-led states.
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The department sent letters to state leaders in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah, warning that mask mandate bans could violate federal protections for students with disabilities.
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Moses, the architect of Freedom Summer's voting registration drive in Mississippi, also spent decades crusading against inequalities in the public school system through his math training program.
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The Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations observed Juneteenth by listening to policy experts acknowledge there's more to do, now that the day is a federal holiday.