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JamesPercival Everett (Doubleday)Everett’s 2020 novel “Telephone” was a Pulitzer finalist. His latest is a reimagining of “Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view of Jim the escaped slave.

first reported in le Parisien on Sunday.Her body will remain buried in Monaco, grandson Claude Bouillon-Baker told Agence France-Presse, but a plaque to honor her entry into the mausoleum will be added on November 30.French minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher said in a statement on social media that Baker was “a great lady who loved France.”Baker, born in 1906, rose to notoriety during France’s roaring 1920s and into the ’30s as an erotic dancer, namely her signature Danse Sauvage in which she works

Bruce Boynton was a civil rights activist whose 1960 landmark Supreme Court case inspired the iconic Freedom Rides.Boynton was a law student at Howard University when he was arrested while traveling home to Selma, Alabama for the holidays. He was dining at a bus station restaurant designated “whites only” and when he failed to leave when ordered to, Boynton was sent to jail for the night.

Lucille Bridges was the mother of Ruby Bridges, who made history in 1960 when she began attending an all-white school in New Orleans.Civil Rights trailblazerBridges, who had to leave school after eighth grade to help her sharecropper parents, was determined that her own children would get good educations.

Rev. Robert Graetz was a Lutheran minister and civil rights activist who was among the residents of Montgomery, Alabama who organized a historic bus boycott.Graetz was a young minister, relatively new to Montgomery, when Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) was arrested in 1955 for refusing to yield her seat on a bus to a white passenger.

Jeanette Carlson was an anti-apartheid activist who was a leader of the South African civil rights organization the Black Sash.A native of South Africa, Carlson first became involved in anti-apartheid activism as a young teacher, assigned to teach a classroom of Black students. As she became aware of the injustices her students faced, she began fighting for the rights of all Black people in South Africa.

pic.twitter.com/5EcH9kwjMDWe stand on her shoulders. RIP Deirdre Davis Butler."Fall down, get up, do it all over again."#MondayMotivationhttps://t.co/Vb7vNciua7#DisabilityRightsFull Obituary: New York Times

Mimi Jones was a civil rights activist who was the subject of a nationally famous photograph of a “swim-in” in St. Augustine, Florida.Jones was just a teenager in 1964 when she was galvanized by the Civil Rights Movement to travel from her home in Georgia to St.

https://t.co/yPoFm5wofcThis picture was taken in June 2013 at the unveiling of the Medgar Evers statue at Alcorn State University. At the time, he was a spry 90 years young and kept me entertained as I emceed.

John Lewis was a long-serving U.S. representative from Georgia who was one of the most prominent leaders of the American civil rights movement.

Rev. C.T. Vivian was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, who worked alongside Dr.

Emma Sanders was a Mississippi civil rights and voting rights activist who helped bring an end to segregated delegations at the Democratic National Convention.Sanders became involved in civil rights activism in the early 1960s, when her son was participating in a campaign to end segregation in restaurants and churches. A concerned parent, she wanted to make sure her son was safe, and then she found inspiration to join the fight.

#TxSU #txsu22 #txsu21 #txsu20 #txsu19 #txsu23 #myhbcu pic.twitter.com/0dtVyXf8sECelebrating the life of Dr.Thomas Freeman, 100 Years of Excellence! This esteemed leader served #TXSU for 70 yrs, arriving on campus in 1949. He instilled the pursuit of excellence in anyone he encountered.

As the nation reels from the death of George Floyd while in police custody, many Americans struggle to grasp how these crimes against minorities can still occur in the US in 2020.

A GoFundMe campaign started by friends of LGBTQ event promoter Nik Dimopolous, a victim of the 2019 Victoria Police raid on queer bookshop Hares & Hyenas has raised over $4,600 in less than a day. The campaign was started by Dimopoulos’ friends Fionnbharr Pfeiffer and Keiran Smyth, hours after a report by the state anti-corruption watchdog IBAC that cleared the police and said that no “disproportionate force” was used in the raid. The report said that Dimopoulos’ human rights had been impacted