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The sun shone on massive North Carolina Moral March

February 10, 2014 By David Bender

The march, organized by the NAACP, labor unions, and religious leaders, amounted to a dramatic comeback of the Moral Monday protests that drew the nation's attention here over the last year.

Today in black history: Leontyne Price born

February 10, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Her voice was "rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C."

Feb. 14 marches for missing Native women unite action with compassion

February 10, 2014 By Andrea Perkins

In March 2010, the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) created a database of information they gathered covering 582 cases of missing and murder native women and girls.

Today in black history: “Jail-No-Bail” campaign began in S.C.

February 7, 2014 By Special to People’s World

SNCC leaders staged a Jail-No-Bail sit-in in solidarity with the imprisoned CORE activists. The sit-in re-energized the movement in Rock Hill, SC.

Today in black history: Medgar Evers’ killer convicted

February 5, 2014 By Special to People’s World

White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in the murder of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, over 30 years after the crime occurred.