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Biden To Award Presidential Medal Of Freedom To Diverse Recipients

President Biden to award 19 individuals, including Hillary Clinton and Denzel Washington, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their exceptional cont...

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Nickel Boys star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘If we see something wrong and don’t say anything, we’re participants’

With a role in the Oscar-tipped reform school drama, the actor continues to pick parts that align with her activism. She recalls how the resilience of her grandmother – and the racism faced by her grandfather – has shaped her

The Guardian - UK

The Black, Jewish and Palestinian liberation struggles are intertwined

We must commit to the coalition work that might bring freedom for some of the most vulnerable among us

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Sequel of DNC injustice 60 years later

For perspective on the 2024 DNC, we mustn’t look to 1968, but rather 1964

Salon

"Fierce" Black women pave way for Harris

"This moment is just a continuation... the guts to stand up to Donald Trump is all of us together"

Salon

Black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris moved them to the foreground

For years, Black women in the Democratic Party have toiled in silence. But in recent years, Eric Garcia reports, things have changed

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Kamala Harris’s speech was the test of her political life. She passed, but there will be others – not least Gaza

The Democrats’ candidate radiated joy, and talked as if she really cared. But the lack of pro-Palestinian voices in Chicago was notable, says Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

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The Latest: Walz is expected to accept the party’s nomination for vice president at DNC Day 3

Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton will headline the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the third day of the party’s choreographed rollout of a new candidate, Kamala Harris, and her pitch to voters

The Independent UK

Fannie Lou Hamer's Legacy Inspires Historic Democratic Nomination

Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer's impactful speech at the 1964 DNC and her enduring legacy in the fight for civil rights and equality in America.

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Tearful Joe Biden passes Democratic torch to Kamala Harris in farewell DNC speech

Visibly emotional US President greeted by a more than four-minute-long ovation and chants of ‘Thank you Joe’

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Uncommitted movement demands DNC allow a representative to speak on Gaza

Movement also wants face time with more receptive Kamala Harris to talk Gaza concerns to bolster party’s power

The Guardian - US

He helped write MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Now he reflects on change in the U.S.

60 years after Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, we hear from one of the men who helped him write it, his friend and attorney Clarence B. Jones.

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The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, “Trailblazers and Torchbearers,” dives into the stories of female leaders whose legacies have often been overshadowed.

The Conversation

‘We may have lost the south’: what LBJ really said about Democrats in 1964

Bill Moyers was there when Lyndon Johnson made his memorable assessment of the Civil Rights Act’s effects

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This week in history: Fannie Lou Hamer gives startling depiction of racism in Mississippi

In 1964, the Chicago Daily News ran a series of articles depicting “a state divided by itself,” Mississippi. Writer Nicholas von Hoffman’s interview with activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who died this week in 1977, demonstrated the price she paid fighting for her rights.

Chicago Tribune

The documentary ‘Fannie Lou Hamer’s America’ took more than 10 years to make. The activist’s words continue to inspire

CHICAGO — How much do you really know about civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer?

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