civil rights
The significance of the Howard Morgan victory for our movement
February 23, 2015We saw from the very beginning that we would have to build a mass protest movement to to free Howard Morgan, and we did just that.
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Repressive “anti-terrorist” legislation in Canada and resistance
February 10, 2015Conservative Party's new legislation if passed will further undermine Canadian privacy rights, civil liberties and freedom of speech.
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Today in African American history: Birthday of writer Alice Walker
February 9, 2015The writer and activist Alice Walker was born on this day in 1944 in Putnam County, Georgia.
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Today in African-American history: Fifteenth amendment ratified
February 3, 2015The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits denying citizens the right to vote based on their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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The wedding of the century
February 3, 2015A four-year romance became the celebration not just of two people being joined together in marriage, but that of a family's triumph over injustice and discrimination.
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