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Twitter Advertisers Face Pressure From Rights Activists After Elon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump's Account
Twitter advertisers are facing calls from a coalition of civil rights activists to issue statements on pulling ads from the microblogging service, days after new owner Elon Musk reinstated the account of former US President Donald Trump. The groups in the Stop Toxic Twitter coalition complained that Musk had vowed to advertisers that Twitter would ...
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Joe Biden Mentions Mahatma Gandhi In Democracy Summit Speech
US President Joe Biden on Thursday invoked Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela while referring to the work done by Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights activist, during his opening remarks at the Summit for Democracy.
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Two Men Found Guilty Of Activist Malcolm X Murder Exonerated
A New York judge on Thursday threw out the convictions of two men imprisoned for decades over the 1965 assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X, acknowledging a gross miscarriage of justice in one of the most high-profile murders in US history
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Top US Activist Urges Biden To Release 60 Million AstraZeneca Vaccine Doses To India
A top American civil rights leader has urged President Joe Biden to release 60 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses for India, which is battling a devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Biden Nominates Indian-American Lawyer To Head Office Of Personnel Management
US President Joe Biden has nominated Indian- American lawyer and rights activist Kiran Ahuja to head the Office of Personnel Management, a federal agency that manages America's more than two million civil servants.
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On Guns, Abortion And Voting Rights, Trump Leaves Lasting Mark On US Judiciary
When a U.S. appeals court declared that Florida could make it harder for convicted felons to vote - a ruling decried by civil rights activists - the impact of President Donald Trump's conservative judicial appointments was plain to see.
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Turkey Renames US Embassy Street After Civil Rights Activist Malcom X
Turkey on Thursday changed the name of the street on which the new US embassy will be located after the American black Muslim civil rights campaigner Malcolm X, an AFP correspondent said.
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Schoolgirl At Heart Of Landmark US Desegregation Ruling Dead At 76
Civil rights activist Linda Brown, who as a Kansas schoolgirl was at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing racial segregation in American public schools, has died at age 76.
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Why A R Rahman And Several Others Are Sharing This Viral Video
A poignant and thought-provoking speech by civil rights lawyer and Sikh activist Valarie Kaur is making waves online. At a time when many are protesting US President Donald Trump's immigration ban, this speech will give people some hope. Originally from an event held on December 31, days before Trump's inauguration, the speech has gone viral. Oscar...
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Anti-Trump Protesters Stage Washington Civil Rights March
US civil rights activists kicked off a week of protests ahead of Donald Trump's presidential inauguration with a march in Washington on Saturday, vowing to keep fighting for equality and justice under the upcoming administration.
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US Concerned by Saudi Sentencing of Activist
The United States on Wednesday urged Saudi Arabia to respect freedom of expression after Riyadh jailed a number of dissidents.
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Julian Bond, Famed US Civil Rights Activist, Dies Aged 75
Julian Bond, a US civil rights activist and the former board chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), died today at the age of 75.
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US Black Rights Group Embarks on Alabama-to-Washington March
Activists from the NAACP, America's oldest and largest civil rights group, embarked this weekend on a month-and-a-half long march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, DC, to focus national attention on issues of racial injustice.
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'Black' Activist Rachel Donezal Resigns Helm of US Civil Rights Group
A US civil rights activist resigned today from the leadership of a leading African American advocacy group, amid a "firestorm" over allegations that she was a white person who masqueraded for years as black.
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US Activists Start Seven-Day March for Michael Brown
US civil rights activists embarked Saturday on a seven-day march to demand sweeping police reforms and denounce a grand jury's decision not to indict a white officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager.
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Twitter Advertisers Face Pressure From Rights Activists After Elon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump's Account
Twitter advertisers are facing calls from a coalition of civil rights activists to issue statements on pulling ads from the microblogging service, days after new owner Elon Musk reinstated the account of former US President Donald Trump. The groups in the Stop Toxic Twitter coalition complained that Musk had vowed to advertisers that Twitter would ...
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Joe Biden Mentions Mahatma Gandhi In Democracy Summit Speech
US President Joe Biden on Thursday invoked Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela while referring to the work done by Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights activist, during his opening remarks at the Summit for Democracy.
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Two Men Found Guilty Of Activist Malcolm X Murder Exonerated
A New York judge on Thursday threw out the convictions of two men imprisoned for decades over the 1965 assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X, acknowledging a gross miscarriage of justice in one of the most high-profile murders in US history
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Top US Activist Urges Biden To Release 60 Million AstraZeneca Vaccine Doses To India
A top American civil rights leader has urged President Joe Biden to release 60 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses for India, which is battling a devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Biden Nominates Indian-American Lawyer To Head Office Of Personnel Management
US President Joe Biden has nominated Indian- American lawyer and rights activist Kiran Ahuja to head the Office of Personnel Management, a federal agency that manages America's more than two million civil servants.
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On Guns, Abortion And Voting Rights, Trump Leaves Lasting Mark On US Judiciary
When a U.S. appeals court declared that Florida could make it harder for convicted felons to vote - a ruling decried by civil rights activists - the impact of President Donald Trump's conservative judicial appointments was plain to see.
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Turkey Renames US Embassy Street After Civil Rights Activist Malcom X
Turkey on Thursday changed the name of the street on which the new US embassy will be located after the American black Muslim civil rights campaigner Malcolm X, an AFP correspondent said.
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Schoolgirl At Heart Of Landmark US Desegregation Ruling Dead At 76
Civil rights activist Linda Brown, who as a Kansas schoolgirl was at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing racial segregation in American public schools, has died at age 76.
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Why A R Rahman And Several Others Are Sharing This Viral Video
A poignant and thought-provoking speech by civil rights lawyer and Sikh activist Valarie Kaur is making waves online. At a time when many are protesting US President Donald Trump's immigration ban, this speech will give people some hope. Originally from an event held on December 31, days before Trump's inauguration, the speech has gone viral. Oscar...
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Anti-Trump Protesters Stage Washington Civil Rights March
US civil rights activists kicked off a week of protests ahead of Donald Trump's presidential inauguration with a march in Washington on Saturday, vowing to keep fighting for equality and justice under the upcoming administration.
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US Concerned by Saudi Sentencing of Activist
The United States on Wednesday urged Saudi Arabia to respect freedom of expression after Riyadh jailed a number of dissidents.
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Julian Bond, Famed US Civil Rights Activist, Dies Aged 75
Julian Bond, a US civil rights activist and the former board chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), died today at the age of 75.
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US Black Rights Group Embarks on Alabama-to-Washington March
Activists from the NAACP, America's oldest and largest civil rights group, embarked this weekend on a month-and-a-half long march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, DC, to focus national attention on issues of racial injustice.
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'Black' Activist Rachel Donezal Resigns Helm of US Civil Rights Group
A US civil rights activist resigned today from the leadership of a leading African American advocacy group, amid a "firestorm" over allegations that she was a white person who masqueraded for years as black.
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US Activists Start Seven-Day March for Michael Brown
US civil rights activists embarked Saturday on a seven-day march to demand sweeping police reforms and denounce a grand jury's decision not to indict a white officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager.
