Civil rights history tour in Hattiesburg
HATTIESBURG – (AP) A new audio driving tour highlights 15 locations that played a crucial part in Mississippi civil rights, including a 1964 drive to register black voters in the state. The Hattiesburg...
View ArticleBelafonte: Civil rights is a way of life
Entertainer Harry Belafonte says civil rights is a way of life, not just a moment in history. The 85-year-old singer spoke Monday night at a convocation marking the 50th anniversary of James Meredith's...
View ArticleTougaloo College to hold memorial service for Mississippi Civil Rights...
The Mississippi Link Newswire A memorial service will be held for Mississippi civil rights veteran Lawrence Guyot Monday, Dec. 10, in the historic Woodworth Chapel on the campus of Tougaloo College....
View ArticleStamp honoring Rosa Parks to be released next month
Just in time for Black History Month, a stamp honoring the mother of civil rights, Rosa Parks, will be unveiled on what would have been her 100th birthday - Feb. 4 in Detroit. Parks’ refusal to...
View ArticleMyrlie Evers-Williams encourages UM Graduates to ‘Soar and Be Free’
Evers-Williams, who worked for more than 30 years to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her well-known civil rights activist husband, Medgar Evers, is a former chairwoman of the NAACP and is widely...
View ArticleUS civil rights leader Julius Chambers dies at 76
Julius Chambers, a Charlotte attorney whose practice was in the forefront of the civil rights movement in North Carolina, has died, his law firm said. He was 76. A statement issued by his law firm,...
View ArticleHuman Rights/Women’s Advocate Succumbs
By David Stokes/NNPA Special To The Mississippi Link After suffering a massive stroke and its debilitating effects for over a week, Mrs. Evelyn Gibson Lowery, wife of civil rights leader Rev. Joseph E....
View ArticleCivil rights icon Aaron Henry gets honor on Mississippi Freedom Trail
CLARKSDALE, Mississippi (AP) — Civil rights icon and former legislator Aaron Henry will be honored Wednesday with a marker on the Mississippi Freedom Trail. The dedication will be 11:30 a.m. Wednesday...
View ArticleObama: Selma teaches his daughters there are ‘struggles for them to fight’
(AP) For President Barack Obama, it’s a week to invoke America’s civil rights struggles from past to present. The nation’s first black president plans a speech Saturday from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in...
View ArticleLawyers’ committee goes on red alert as Trump rolls back civil rights
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Contributor President Donald Trump began his first term by attempting to roll back the civil rights gains that occurred under his predecessor, President Barack...
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