‘Dangerous Cities,’ the Military, Trump and the Founding Fathers

The U.S. armed services have long sought to preserve the tradition of a nonpartisan military.

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Bobby Cain, Barrier Breaker in School Desegregation, Dies at 85

In 1957, facing down white mobs, he became the first Black student to graduate from a public high school in the South under a court mandate.

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James E. Ferguson II, Rights Lawyer Who Defended Busing, Dies at 82

He helped litigate a landmark school desegregation case before the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn wrongful convictions of Black defendants in North Carolina.

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Mississippi Museum Acquires Gun Linked to Emmett Till’s Murder

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum put the gun on display days after the federal government released thousands of pages of records on the Till case.

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Trump Once Praised the Black History Museum That He Is Now Attacking

President Trump’s 2017 tour of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture seems a distant memory.

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MLK Files Release Renews Debate Over His Legacy

The release of National Archives documents is the latest attempt to define what the Civil Rights icon believed, and what that means now for the country.

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1965 Was the Last Time a President Bypassed a Governor to Deploy the National Guard

Before Saturday, the last time a president made use of Guard troops to deal with civil unrest without being asked to do so by the state’s governor was in 1965.

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Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past

Louisiana officials want to overturn the remaining federal desegregation orders in their state. They may find allies in the Trump administration.

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Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past

Louisiana officials want to overturn the remaining federal desegregation orders in their state. They may find allies in the Trump administration.

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White Supremacist Is Charged in 2019 Arson at Tennessee Civil Rights Landmark

Regan Prater set fire to the main offices of the Highlander Research and Education Center and took credit for it in encrypted messages, prosecutors said.

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