Family of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose murder inspired the Civil Rights movement, will never get justice as woman accused of setting lynch mob on him ‘would be dead by the time it went to trial’, it is claimed New evidence had investigators discover an arrest warrant for Carolyn […]
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired us to rise up against racial injustice more than 60 years ago, helping spark a civil rights movement that is still in motion today. Highlighting that the movement is an ongoing process — and not a moment relegated to history — is the […]
The Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar has backed Major League Baseball’s decision to move its All-Star Game from Georgia over a restrictive new voting law. But in doing so she placed herself at odds with another leading progressive, the voting rights campaigner Stacey Abrams. Abrams, who suffered a narrow defeat in […]
Former President Barack Obama applauded Major League Baseball’s decision to pull this year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta in protest of Georgia’s new restrictive voting law. “Congratulations to @MLB for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens. There’s no better way for America’s pastime to honor […]
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. There’s a lot riding on the outcome of a vote on whether to form a union at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. My colleague Karen Weise has described it as the […]
Lee Elder’s appearance next Thursday morning as an honorary starter for the 85th edition of the Masters will – metaphorically of course – see rose petals thrown at the feet of those in high office at Augusta National. Perhaps it is churlish not to commend organisations for doing the right […]
The award-winning graphic novels about congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis will continue a year after his death ByThe Associated Press March 30, 2021, 3:57 PM • 1 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article NEW YORK — The award-winning series of graphic novels about congressman and […]
This could be a knockout for fans of the enduring “Rocky” franchise. A “time machine” television series about Rocky Balboa is in the works, according to hand-scrawled notes Sylvester Stallone posted on Instagram. The 74-year-old — who scored three Oscar nods for the original 1976 film, which he wrote and […]