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‘Negros Don't Perform Classical Music:' Fighting Bias in Music While Black
Purnell Steen talks about the bias Black students faced in the 1960s trying to pursue classical music and how they continue to be discriminated against in all other aspects of their education at the dawn of the civil rights era.
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Access and Aspiration: A Nurse's Fight for Acceptance
Elizabeth Williams, a former Philadelphia nurse and hospital superintendent, talks about fighting for acceptance as a Black medical professional in the medical system and how discrimination followed her career from hospital to hospital.
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Fighting to the Front: Civil Rights Icon Reflects on Challenges, Championing Equal Access
Johnnie R. Turner, a former Tennessee state representative, talks about her experience with implicit segregation on buses and public spaces even after courts have ruled to desegregate.
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Sand, Surf and Segregation: A Fight for Civil Rights in St. Augustine, Florida
Purcell Conway, a civil rights activist from St. Augustine, Florida, talks about the watershed moments that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and why it’s still not the end of the fight for racial equity in the United States.
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A Pioneering Pediatrician On Desegregating a Philadelphia Boarding School
Dr. Albert Gaskins, a doctor and desegregationist, speaks about his record as a civil rights activist as a young man and young professionals to open doors for other Black Americans.
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Study Shows Rise of Hate Crimes, Violence Against Asian Americans During the Pandemic
While the pandemic’s long-lasting impact has affected public health and the economy, the Asian-American community has also experienced the fallout of COVID-19 – being unfairly blamed for the pandemic and becoming the target of discrimination and violence.
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Opening Doors and Minds: Honoring Denver's 1st Tenured Black Teacher
Marie L. Greenwood, the first tenured Black teacher in the Denver public school system so revered that she had an elementary school named after her, recalls how she fought to open the gates for more Black teachers in a system that didn’t have faith in them.
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A Physician's Work Promoting Equity in Medicine
Dr. Edward S. Cooper, the first Black President of the American Heart Association and Martin Luther King Jr.’s physician, has spent his life sealing the health gap for Black Americans.
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University of Alabama Removes George Wallace's Name From Building
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has removed the name of four-term governor and presidential candidate George C. Wallace from a campus building over his support of racial segregation
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Sitting In and Taking a Stand: A Civil Rights Activist's 61-Year Journey
Rev. William B. Moore talks about how Black student of the time used civil disobedience to gain small victories during the Civil Rights Movement, and how participating as a sit-in protester shaped the rest of his life as an activist.
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In the Footsteps of the ‘Little Rock Nine'
Dr. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver, a native of segregated Little Rock, Arkansas, recalls her experience as the first Black student attempting to desegregate Forest Heights Junior High School.
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Elaine Brown: A Black Panther's Journey in Breaking New Ground
Elaine Brown is accustomed to breaking new ground — and overcoming adversity is a challenge she’d conquered long before she made history in the 1970s as the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party.
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Anonymous $40 Million Gift Will Pay Law School for 50 Civil Rights Attorneys
The NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund is launching a scholarship program to create a new generation of civil rights lawyers
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Officer With Knee to George Floyd's Neck to Be Tried Alone
A former Minneapolis police officer who held his knee to George Floyd’s neck for minutes will be tried separately from three other former officers accused in his death
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Sharpton: Firing Officer Who Killed Andre Hill Is Not Enough
The life of Andre Hill was commemorated Tuesday morning as family and lawmakers called for justice to be brought against the white Columbus police officer who fatally shot the 47-year-old days before Christmas
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Negligence Claims Filed in Shootings at Kenosha, Wisconsin Protest
Claims filed on behalf of two men shot by an Illinois teen during a night of protests over a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, allege the city and Kenosha County were negligent in their response to the unrest
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Australia Changes Word in Anthem to Honor Indigenous People
Australia has changed one word in its national anthem to reflect what the prime minister called the spirit of unity and the country’s Indigenous population