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Home where King planned Selma voting rights marches opens at Michigan museum

A home where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders planned strategies during the Civil Rights movement in the Deep South now has been rebuilt at a Michigan museum after being dismantled and hauled from Alabama

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75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once did

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence isn’t the only important anniversary in 2026. This year also marks the 75th anniversary of an extraordinary case of student activism that helped lead to the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing segregated schools.

The Conversation

Charlie Kirk Banner Removed From Department of Education Building Washington, DC Amid Backlash

The Charlie Kirk banner displayed inside the Department of Education building in Washington, DC has been removed after online backlash over its placement beside historic figures like MLK.

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‘Proud to honor visionary leaders’: Department of Education triggers outrage for a bizarre honoree amongst education legends

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US Department of Education hangs Charlie Kirk banner outside DC building

Banner has sparked criticism as Kirk was a polarizing figure who made incendiary and often racist and sexist comments

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Charlie Kirk's Banner Displayed at Education Department: Critics Say He Left College and Called It a 'Liberal Scam'

Education Department displays Charlie Kirk banner alongside MLK Jr. and Booker T. Washington for America 250 anniversary. Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA but never completed a college degree.

International Business Times UK

Trump's DOE Elevates Charlie Kirk's Hero Status With Taxpayer Dollars Placing Him Alongside MLK Jr, Other US Political Figures

The Trump administration's DOE faces backlash for featuring Charlie Kirk alongside historic figures like MLK Jr in a taxpayer-funded display.

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3 Coins From the 1950s That Are Worth a Lot of Money

To learn more about coins from the 1950s that collectors are excited about, GOBankingRates talked to Dr. Mike Fuljenz, president of Universal Coin and Bullion.

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How organized labor shames its traitors − the story of the ‘scab’

Over its long history, the American labor movement has displayed a remarkably rich vocabulary for shaming those deemed traitors to its cause.

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‘Let’s keep this history alive’: Descendants of Black leaders gather at White House

Descendants of several civil rights leaders and abolitionists came together Tuesday at a Black History Month event hosted by the White House.

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Target pulls Black History Month book that misidentified 3 civil rights icons

The magnet book mixed up W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. Target said it will no longer sell the book in stores or online and that it notified the publisher of the errors.

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What are the liberal arts? A literature scholar explains

The term “liberal arts” is one of the most misunderstood terms in the public discourse on higher education today. A higher education expert once said that putting the words “liberal” and “arts” together was a “branding disaster” – one so toxic that it was undermining public support for higher education.…

The Conversation

Enter the "little man" theory of history

Of course our four-times-indicted ex-president is the archetypal Little Man of history. Sadly, he's not alone

Salon

The untold story of how Howard University came to be known as 'The Mecca'

If you ask just about anyone at Howard University what’s the other name for their school, they will readily tell you: “The Mecca.”

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From MLK to today, the March on Washington highlights the evolution of activism by Black churches

The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech

Salon

PragerU's true goal: "Indoctrinate" kids

What Ron DeSantis wants to teach kids: Racism and inequality don't matter, and politics can't solve injustice

The Conversation

Why no living people appear on US postage stamps

With the ascension of King Charles III to the British throne, some commentators have made much of the fact that the new stamp bearing his image features the king without a crown.

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4-star LB Joseph Phillips commits to Auburn over Georgia

Four-star linebacker recruit Joseph Phillips has committed to Auburn over UGA

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The Wounded World review: brilliant biography of WEB Du Bois at war

Chad L Williams charts the great Black intellectual’s journey through the first world war. It makes essential reading

The Independent UK

House where King planned Alabama marches moving to Michigan

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation

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Former reporter pens bio about the incredible life of Black Civil War veteran in new book, 'The Sergeant'

Shortly after 9/11, a group of Palestinian students had some questions for an American reporter about the lives and history of Muslims in America that sent him on a decadeslong journey, researching and writing about Muslims who had been in the United States since a few years after the Mayflower…

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