US supreme court ruling could eliminate two majority-Black districts and entrench Republican control from Congress to county school boards
Alabama has long been considered the birthplace of the voting…
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Southern Poverty Law Center pleads not guilty in federal fraud case ⊖⊖
Prosecutors allege SPLC funneled over $3m to sources in extremist groups but legal experts say case is weak
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Woke Southern Poverty Law Center charged with fraud by DoJ as anti-racism nonprofit is accused of secretly giving cash to white supremacists including KKK members ⊖
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Located in Montgomery, Alabama , the left-wing non-profit has been accused by the Department of Justice (DoJ) of executing a shadowy scheme from 2014 until 2023.
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Scammed out of £17k, one woman flew across UK to confront suspect ⊖
Rhonda Montgomery was scammed out of £17,000 by fraudsters pretending to work for Revolut.
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‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it ○
The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr p…
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Claudette Colvin obituary ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
US civil rights activist who as a schoolgirl protested against segregation on Alabama’s buses
Although she was a pivotal figure in the US civil rights movement, Claudette Colvin, who has died aged 86…
Claudette Colvin’s life should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops | Gary Younge ⊕
Colvin, who died this week, made a stand on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks. When we met, her message about the struggle was clear
“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carl…
Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies aged 86 ⊖⊖
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Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance
US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up he…
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Texas father rescues kidnapped 15-year-old daughter after tracking her phone’s location ⊕
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Authorities say they arrested a man, 23, for kidnapping teen in a Houston suburb as she walked her dog on Christmas
A Texas father used the parental controls on his teenage daughter’s cell phone to fi…
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What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis ⊖⊖
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required repeated action and tremendous sacrifice, without any certainty it would work
The Montgomery bus boycott, which began 70 year…