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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the day President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, and these are the basics of the 11 titles that comprised the landmark piece of legislation.
Via Politics Nation host Rev. Al Sharpton’s Instagram:
On the 5th anniversary of the passing of my friend Michael Jackson, I reflect on one of my favorite memories with him. Around 1979 Michael Jackson , Janet Jackson & Sister Sledge came to see James Brown perform in Reseda, CA. I’ve never seen anyone look at a person with such awe as Michael looked at James that night.
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"When the Supreme Court overturned that part of LBJ’s Voting Rights Act, that same day Mississippi and Alabama and North Carolina and Texas all announced that they were moving ahead, immediately, with new restrictions on voting. Restrictions they had wanted to institute before but they had been blocked by the old voting rights law that banned any changes that would be too racist, too racially discriminatory in their impact. With that law out of the way they went ahead with those changes on the first day they could." - Rachel Maddow, U.S. civil rights legacy tested 50 years after ‘Freedom Summer’
Watch the funeral of JFK - as it happened - on November 25, 1963.
“Ain’t I a woman? Where are the women who need to be acknowledged in this movement for freedom and justice? We must not forget them.”
-Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights activist, journalist, and widow of Medgar Evers at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
“Jim Crow is alive and it’s dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.”
“The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.” -John F. Kennedy
50 years ago on this day, President Kennedy delivered a momentous civil rights speech.
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While a national conversation on “leaning in” dominated media headlines this spring, House Republicans quietly blocked a vote on legislation seeking to close loopholes in the half-century old Equal Pay Act. As the landmark legislation making gender-based wage discrimination illegal turns 50, women are still far from reaching pay parity with men
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Today is the fourth day of Black History Month and what would’ve been Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday. This past weekend, Melissa Harris-Perry took a look back on the life of Rosa Parks and her legacy.
