Latest Breaking News On - பர்மிங்காம் மேயர் ரேண்டால் - Page 3 : comparemela.com
US sets aside nearly $5b for housing assistance
bostonglobe.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bostonglobe.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge details how Biden stimulus bill will target homelessness
washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Permalink
By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
March 9, 2021
The 2021 virtual Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage highlighted the Freedom Rides and Bloody Sunday while honoring the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. (file and contributed)
On March 4, 1961, two buses left Washington headed south. A group of activists known as the Freedom Riders were on board, challenging Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in interstate travel.
The annual Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage that took place last Friday, 60 years after that act of nonviolent civil disobedience, commemorated the anniversary and paid tribute to the pilgrimage’s board chairman emeritus, the late Congressman John Lewis.
From May into September 1961, more than 60 Freedom Rides took place, during which more than 400 young Blacks and whites traveled shoulder to shoulder, challenging the Jim Crow transportation laws that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling had struck down but cities across the South were ignoring.
MSNBC visits Birmingham in honor of Black History Month
Updated Feb 21, 2021;
Ali Velshi, host of the weekend news show Velshi on MSNBC, came to Birmingham this weekend in honor of Black History Month. While in the Magic City, Velshi spoke with residents of the city about its intense racial history, and how that history shapes the fight for racial justice today.
Birmingham, a city known for its role in the Civil Rights movement, is more than 70 percent Black - one of the Blackest cities in America, according to Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin. Velshi hosted a socially-distanced discussion with five Black Birmingham residents where they talked about the city’s racial history, the COVID-19 pandemic and more.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.