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As civil rights books are pulled from school shelves, one Alabama town is refusing to forget its story

The Scottsboro Boys Museum tells the story of nine African American men who were falsely accused of the rape of two white women in 1931

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Carol Moseley Braun, first black female senator: ’Sexism is harder to change than racism’

Trailblazing Illinois Democrat reflects on political career and says party is ‘in a daze’ about how to combat Trump

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How Philadelphia’s sanitation strike differed from past labor disputes in the city

The Philadelphia municipal workers strike ended after eight days in the early hours of July 9, 2025.

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Jaws at 50: a thinly disguised western by a nerdy young filmmaker that helped to rejuvenate Hollywood

The collapse of classical Hollywood’s studio system in the 1960s mirrored much of America’s cultural and political uncertainties at the time. The assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement and the escalating Vietnam war provided a background that destabilised the optimism with which the decade…

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Would Releasing the Martin Luther King Files Help Curb the Surveillance State?

The FBI spied on the civil rights leader for years. Would releasing its surveillance files just be a further violation of King's privacy, or would it make future abuses less likely?

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Judge weighs government's request to unseal records of FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep under wraps in the national archives

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An interfaith group’s 1950s MLK comic book remains a prominent nonviolence teaching tool

“Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story” continues to be a nonviolence teaching tool and an influential historical account in the United States and worldwide

The Independent UK

White House has ‘no specific timeline’ to release Epstein files despite Trump’s promises

A number of files were handed to MAGA influencers amid a fanfare of publicity – but they turned out to hold no significant new information

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Famed Memphis church associated with Martin Luther King damaged by fire

Clayborn Temple, base for sanitation workers’ strike that brought King to Memphis in 1968, suffers extensive damage

The Guardian - US

Family of Martin Luther King hits back at Le Pen for comparing struggles

The family of Dr Martin Luther King have criticised far-right leader Marine Le Pen for comparing her ban from running in the 2027 presidential election to the US civil rights movement, describing the comparison as an "inappropriate distortion of history".

Radio France Internationale

‘We use food to tell stories, to nourish, and to heal’: On the culinary trail through Mississippi

With a hot tamale trail and the world catfish festival, Mississippi has a culinary scene unlike any other in the States – Yvette Cook travels the Delta region to try some of the greatest soul food dishes and hear the stories that inspired them

The Independent UK

Trump releases thousands of pages on John F Kennedy assassination

Experts doubt new trove of information will change underlying facts in case of 35th president’s death

The Guardian - US

Nickel Boys could be the most radical literary adaptation ever made – but how does it compare to the book?

The Nickel Boys (2019) won Colson Whitehead his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making him one of just four writers to win it twice. The novel’s main setting is the Nickel Academy, a segregated reform school in mid-1960s Florida, based on the real-life Dozier School for Boys.

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The New Crocs Collab Is Far From The Weirdest Crossover 'Fortnite's Ever Done

No game has had as many crossovers with brands and pop culture icons as 'Fortnite', and that's led to some really, really weird decisions.

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How Jesse Jackson embodied Southern politics − and changed American elections

Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” Like several survivors of that violent day in 1965, when police brutally attacked civil rights protesters, Jackson crossed the…

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Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, civil rights leaders in Selma continue fight

Election of Trump and threats to democracy front of mind as activists remember peaceful marchers attacked by police

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Smokey Robinson shares verdict on Trump returning to the White House

‘I’ll be glad when the next four years are up,’ singer said

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Candi Staton: ‘I told him, If you kill me, you’ll die too’

INTERVIEW: The 84-year-old soul stalwart has survived alcoholism, segregation, a dramatic mid-career trough, and a relationship in which she accuses a man of once holding a gun to her head. Ahead of a new documentary paying tribute to her career, she talks to Craig McLean about going on the road…

International Business Times

Playgrounds Come Alive Again With Brazil School Phone Ban

In Rio de Janeiro, children are playing again "like in the old days," and their focus in class has improved after a school cellphone ban pioneered in the city that has now gone national.

Evening Standard

Chineke! Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall review: full of easy-going charm

4/5 This 10-year anniversary concert of the orchestra’s founding shows there’s plenty to look forward to in the next decade

The Guardian - UK

Theaster Gates: ‘I’m an artist. It’s my job to wake things up’

In the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the US artist is in the UK with a show drawing on the legacy of Malcolm X – and an alternative vision for making America great again

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'Absurd': BBC Question Time panned for 'did God save Trump' discussion

IF you tuned in to BBC Question Time on Thursday, you’d be forgiven for thinking there wasn’t much happening in UK politics ...

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White House Orders Release Of JFK Assassination Files And Leaves People On Edge

“Our government, led by corrupt bureaucrats, has hidden this information from the American people for far too long,” US Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said. The post White House Orders Release Of JFK Assassination Files And Leaves People On Edge first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Bulldozers kill man in tent in Atlanta clearing homeless camp near MLK’s church

The city was clearing the area around the Ebenezer Baptist church before the MLK Day celebration on Monday

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