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As we mark 50 years since the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., Michel Martin talks with Human Rights Watch's Nicole Austin-Hillery, the New School's Maya Wiley and the NAACP's Tiffany Dena Loftin.
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Georgia Gilmore organized black women to cook without raising the suspicions of their white employers, and poured the proceeds into an alternative transportation system for Montgomery bus boycotters.
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In the summer of 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago, was visiting family in Money, Mississippi.After an incident in which he allegedly whistled…
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A play opens Friday night at the Guadalupe Theatre based on a children's book. That book is That's Not Fair, No Es Justo! And it's based on a young San…
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The film “Hidden Figures” tells the true story of Katherine G. Johnson , an African American mathematician who helped calculate the trajectories for…
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From Texas Standard : Much has been made over the past few years about the potential shifting of political tides in Texas – from the "sleeping giant" of...
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When it comes to the list of Texans who were warriors for civil rights, the name Homer Thornberry may not likely be a name that many will conjure up. But…
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On Friday Texas and 12 other states asked a federal judge to block the Obama administration’s order to school districts to allow transgender students to…
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As the 60th anniversary of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott approaches, author Jeanne Theoharis says it's time to let go of the image of Rosa Parks as an unassuming accidental activist.
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After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the struggle for civil rights.Many of their stories have been recorded by the Voces…