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Black churches have been getting ‘souls to the polls’ for more than 60 years
At Black churches up and down the U.S., religious slogans have been supplanted with another message in the runup to…
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Coronavirus
Lincoln Memorial rally marks 1963 protest, 2020 need for change
WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin,…
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Coronavirus
March on Washington reworked to comply with virus rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid widespread protests and unrest over the police killings of Black Americans, a national commemoration of the…
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Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. (AP) — Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday — in the rural…
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John Lewis, civil rights icon and Congressman, dies at 80
ATLANTA (AP) — Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state…
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Black History Month
Icons of 1960s civil rights movement voice cautious optimism
CINCINNATI (AP) — Bob Moses says America is at “a lurching moment” for racial change, potentially as transforming as the…
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