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Topic: Civil Rights (page 4)

September 1964: American clergyman and civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The myths that diminish MLK's legacy

Eric McDaniel
Martin Luther King Jr., gives his "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd before the Lincoln Memorial during the Freedom March in Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963. The widely quoted speech became one of his most famous. (Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images)

Why MLK detested moderates

Bob Hennelly
In a June 25, 2015 file photo, John Becker of Silver Spring, Md., waves a rainbow flag in support of gay marriage outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

The Supreme Court decides

Julie Manning Magid - The Conversation
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"Won’t you be my neighbor?"

L. Benjamin Rolsky - The Conversation
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Protestors from ADAPT, a grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, block the intersection of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW near the White House for nearly four hours September 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How Disability Rights saved my life

Nadina LaSpina
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Facebook sued for digital redlining

Nicole Karlis
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at U.S. Bank Arena, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Lawyer: Ways Trump copies early Hitler

Steven Rosenfeld - Independent Media Institute
Reverend Al Sharpton; President Donald Trump (Getty/Paras Griffin/Roberto Schmidt)

Trump slams Al Sharpton over Baltimore

Matthew Rozsa
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(Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

A long-running immigration problem

Cassandra Burke Robertson, Irina D. Manta - The Conversation
President Donald Trump watches a flyover on July 04, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Tasos Katopodis)

Enough debate about Trump: Stop him

Andrew O'Hehir
US Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents take part in a safety drill in the Anapra area in Sunland Park, New Mexico, United States on January 31, 2019. (Getty/Herika Martinez)

Routine profiling for Mexicans in US

David FitzGerald - The Conversation
Sen. Cory Booker (AP/Alex Brandon)

Cory Booker rips Democratic rival Biden

Travis Gettys
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(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

SF's facial recognition ban falls short

Nicole Karlis
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Facebook reaches settlement with ACLU

Jack Gillum, Ariana Tobin - ProPublica
Donald Trump; Frederick Douglass (AP/Wikimedia/Salon)

Frederick Douglass and the resistance

Chauncey DeVega
Kamala Harris (AP/Alex Brandon)

Securitization: dangerous to democracy

Musa al-Gharbi - Independent Media Institute
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Facial recognition's civil rights threat

Nicole Karlis
Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP/David Goldman)

Coming around on MLK, thanks to Grandma

D. Watkins
Demonstrators march down North Capital Street during protest march within sight of the capitol in Washington, June 14, 1963; Demonstrators protest as they celebrate the verdict in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke along Michigan Avenue on October 5, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. (AP/John Rous/Getty/Joshua Lott)

Russia and racism: A brief history

Paul Rosenberg
Members of the John Birch Society (AP Photo)

John Birch Society's impact on politics

Christopher Towler - The Conversation
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"Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry" by Imani Perry (Beacon Press)

Lorraine Hansberry, American radical

Imani Perry
Jeff Sessions (AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

Jeff Sessions' final act

Rachel Leah
Participants listen to a speaker during the Women's March for Truth on January 20, 2018 in St Louis, Missouri. (Getty/Whitney Curtis)

Rebecca Traister: "There's no peak fury"

Lauren Schiller
Protesters hold signs at a rally in support of transgender youth, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, at the Stonewall National Monument in New York. (AP/Kathy Willens)

Fighting Trump's anti-trans plan

Rachel Leah, Shira Tarlo
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