Laketran and Geauga Transit, in partnership with the NAACP of Lake County, have continued honoring the life and legacy of Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon who sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, by reserving a front seat on its transit vehicles. Born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Parks became a symbol of resistance […]
Winners of this year’s Rosa Parks Scholarship competition – now its 35th year at the State University of New York at Fredonia – will be announced at an aw
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Us about how you got here. why you re doing this. well i m here today because i want to support the students as they are sending a very clear and strong message to our legislators and to the white house. that their lives matter. that all of our lives matter. and i what i liken to what they are doing is no different than what we did in the civil rights movement. the students that sat at the lunch counter and the students that were fighting against the against the vietnam war. so they re fight today is no different, it is just the modern day civil rights movement that they re engaged in and i want to support them in any way i k. they are deserve our support. what did you think of the intersection here in today s programming between the idea of gun control in general, gun control in the schools, which came out of parkland and the specific and arguably more complex situation of racial violence in america? well i ve always said that
Any distraction from what s going on with the investigation is what he s seeking. but since you call him an amateur historian, if i could try to draw a historical analogy. so go to mississippi where they are going to have an exhibit, obviously, about emmett till, an incident that brought about the modern day civil rights movement, what donald trump did with central park five was very similar. a white woman accused emmett till and he was lynched. the central park five committed a rape and he called for their execution. if donald trump had been around in 1955 in mississippi, he would have advocated for the lynching of emmett till. but what s interesting when several women say roy moore has molested them or when over a dozen women say that donald trump has been inappropriate