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Voices of the Freedom Riders – 60th Anniversary

BY THE OBAMA FOUNDATION To mark the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, we spoke with veterans of the movement, as well as author Eric Etheridge, whose book Breach of Peace features a photo-history of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Makes History As WTO’s First African And Female Leader

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former two-time Nigerian finance minister, was appointed Monday to the be the next director-general of the World Trade Organization. She is the first African and the first woman to lead the body, which governs trade...

When 20,000 Asian Americans Demanded Garment Workers’ Rights—And Won

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It was an unlikely group to storm the streets of New York City’s Chinatown in the summer of 1982: Nearly 20,000 garment workers—mostly Asian American women—marched together in solidarity for better benefits. Clad in matching union caps, they carried...

Agnes Fay Morgan, Home Economics: Berkeley

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“There were giants in the earth in those days,” and time will endorse the verdict that Agnes Fay Morgan is high on the list of “men (and women) of renown” who have served the University of California long and well.

The Columbus mayor called Ma’Khia Bryant a ‘young woman.’

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The 2017 Georgetown study found that adults’ biased perceptions of Black girls result in their being suspended from school at higher rates than White girls, and being more likely than both Black boys and their White peers to be disciplined for minor...