BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — A billboard in Montgomery, Ala., has ignited a storm of backlash after displaying the words “It’s Time to Get the Clowns Out!” alongside images of people in racist blackface.
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Fighting to keep Blackness
Trump supporters have introduced bills to remove the Black Lives Matter Plaza sign in Washington, D.C. and the Freedom Riders Museum in Montgomery, Ala., while Democrats are pushing back against the anti-DEI and anti-woke message by reintroducing the Voting Rights Act.
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Bloody Sunday memorial to honor late civil rights giants
In this March 7, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama, center, walks as he holds hands with Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was beaten during “Bloody Sunday,” as the then-first family and others including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., left of Obama, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody […]
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Biden marks ‘Bloody Sunday’ by signing voting rights order
In this March 7, 1965, file photo, a state trooper swings a billy club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala. The March 7, 2021, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will be the first without the towering presence of Lewis, […]