civil rights era
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Feb- 2020 -2 February#NNPA BlackPress
60 Years Ago: Students Launched Sit-In Movement
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Violent episodes were the exceptions and not the rule of the massively spreading Sit-in Movement. In nearly…
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Jan- 2020 -19 January#NNPA BlackPress
OP-ED: Redefining Suffrage, Unerasing Black Women
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The 19th Amendment was adopted Aug. 18, 1920, after the required number of states ratified the constitutional…
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Jul- 2019 -23 JulyBlack History
Verniecia Green-Jordan Builds Family/Perris Legacy
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — From the far reaches of the antebellum south where Afro-Appalachian descendants fought through slavery, reconstruction and…
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15 July#NNPA BlackPress
COMMENTARY: Celebrity Trials, Legacies Lost, Lives Shattered, What’s the Real Truth?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — …the odds of a black man winning inside an American courtroom are tantamount to President Donald Trump…
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6 July#NNPA BlackPress
Chicago Defender Newspaper Moves to Digital Only with its July 11 Edition
NNPA NEWSWIRE — After 114 years of using ink on paper to deliver news that informs, educates and empowers the…
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