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DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020.
Watch live as Kamala Harris holds a presidential campaign event in Atlanta on Tuesday (30 July).
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the civil rights movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 95.
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat of Texas, said on Sunday that she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but plans to continue her work in Congress as she undergoes treatment.
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) has revealed how she fact-checked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “in real-time” after she found herself sat next to the MAGA hat-wearing far-right lawmaker during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.
Vice President Kamala Harris called for a cease-fire in Gaza Sunday while commemorating the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day law enforcement officers attacked Civil Rights activists crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Harris gave an 18-minute speech at a gathering on the bridge to recognize the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, officers beat 600 demonstrators with billy clubs and sprayed them with tear gas during a march across the bridge in support of voting rights. Before honoring activists like Amelia Boynton and John Lewis, Harris acknowledged the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. Harris condemned Hamas while also calling on the Israel
At a time when school boards are voting to remove Black history from curriculums and the state of Florida approved harmful academic standards stating that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” it’s crucial to recognize the Black trailblazers who pushed forward voting rights, put an end to discriminatory Jim Crow laws and refused to allow future generations of Black people to suffer the same discrimination and abuse that they did.
Martin Luther King Jr. was just an “ersatz pastor” and a “communist,” and the 1960s civil rights movement was “crap,” according to a series of Facebook posts by Mark Robinson, the leading Republican candidate to be North Carolina’s next governor.