Race Matters
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Alabama May Consider Wiping the Arrest Records Clean for Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks
Alabama officials are considering a bid to clear arrest records of civil rights icons Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, both convicted in the 1950s.
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A Black Ex-High School Track Coach Alleges His Firing Was a Racially-Motivated Act of Retaliation Against Him
A federal suit against the Connecticut high school claims that Lorenzo Milledge's issues with administration began after he was spat on by a student in 2020.
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Ain’t Nothing Funny: Nassau County School District Says Video of White Students Using the N-Word, Wearing White Hood Was Meant to Be a ‘Joke’
The school district says they did not discipline the students because the video was taken during the summer, before the school year began.
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Head of Prep School Who Uninvited Nikole Hannah-Jones Is Taking a Leave of Absence
David Beare and the board of trustees say disinviting Hannah-Jones from the Massachusetts prep school was a “shameful mistake.”
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‘People Aren’t Going to Be Happy With It’: F1 Driver Lewis Hamilton Recalls Decision to Wear Breonna Taylor T-Shirt
The 36-year-old has used his platform to address issues impacting the Black community.
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Rosa Parks Got the Glory. Claudette Colvin Just Wants Her Record Expunged
Colvin was 15 when she refused to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus in 1955, nine months before Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.