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In the novel 54 Miles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. tells a story of generational cycles, pain, and healing during the Civil Rights Movement in the heart of Alabama.
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An exhibition at The Arc in Opa-locka provides a look into the civil rights movement and Black life in the South through the works of photojournalist Ernest C. Withers.
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Meet Clarence Fort, organizer of the Tampa 1960 sit-ins, and Mark E. Leib, the playwright behind the new production spotlighting the events.
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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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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 yes vote comes a day after the Senate unanimously moved to recognize June 19 as a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States.
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Lowery got his start as an activist organizing bus boycotts in 1950s Alabama. He led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for two decades and prayed at Barack Obama's first inauguration.
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On this Thursday, Feb. 13, episode of Sundial:Palm Beach County Homeless Encampment Dozens of tents housing homeless people are clustered in "Tent City,"…
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Bryan Stevenson built a museum and monument in Alabama dedicated to slavery and its legacy. "We need to create institutions in this country that motivate more people to say 'Never again,' " he says.
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As a teenager growing up in Alabama, Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King Jr. during a budding civil rights movement. In a letter back, King invited the 18-year-old to join the cause.
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The Georgia congressman, who spent decades fighting racial discrimination, says he's mounting his biggest battle yet: stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Lewis will stay in office as he undergoes treatment.
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W. George Allen, a hugely influential figure in Broward history and its black community, has died, his family confirmed Thursday. He was 83.In 1962, Allen…