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Black churches have been getting 'souls to the polls' for more than 60 years
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Black churches have been getting 'souls to the polls' for more than 60 years
The Associated Press4 months ago0

At Black churches up and down the U.S., religious slogans have been supplanted with another message in the runup to Nov. 3: Vote! The landscape of the 2020 general election…

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Lincoln Memorial rally marks 1963 protest, 2020 need for change
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Lincoln Memorial rally marks 1963 protest, 2020 need for change
The Associated Press6 months ago0

WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, civil rights advocates on Friday denounced police and vigilante violence…

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March on Washington reworked to comply with virus rules
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March on Washington reworked to comply with virus rules
The Associated Press7 months ago0

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid widespread protests and unrest over the police killings of Black Americans, a national commemoration of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington is being reconfigured to…

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Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
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Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
The Associated Press7 months ago0

TROY, Ala. (AP) — Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday — in the rural Alabama county where his story began — as a humble…

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John Lewis, civil rights icon and Congressman, dies at 80
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John Lewis, civil rights icon and Congressman, dies at 80
The Associated Press8 months ago0

ATLANTA (AP) — Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and…

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Icons of 1960s civil rights movement voice cautious optimism
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Icons of 1960s civil rights movement voice cautious optimism
The Associated Press8 months ago0

CINCINNATI (AP) — Bob Moses says America is at “a lurching moment” for racial change, potentially as transforming as the Civil War era and as the 1960s civil rights movement…

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