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...Charleston, S.C., the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African History and Culture in Baltimore, Md. Add to those the numerous locales from the 20th century civil rights movement, like the Montgomery, Ala., bus stop where Rosa Parks was arrested, that are increasingly being turned into monuments and pilgrimage points, and it's clear that the story of African-American life, for so long passed over in near silence, is finally being set down in stone...
...College students spend their time studying and don’t care as much how they look,” Rosa M. Alvarez said...
...landmark 1954 decision on school desegregation. A series of panels and lectures that ran from April 12-17 drew luminaries from both the legal and educational worlds, including President Lawrence H. Summers and Fred Gray, who served as legal counsel for both Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks...
...Basque and Catalonian governments. This new willingness to talk could create an opportunity for ETA to renounce violence. Still, the government must stop shy of any moves that could be interpreted as appeasement. "We have to convince them that they must put an end to their violence," says Rosa Díez, a Basque Socialist member of the European Parliament. "We will not pay a political price to end terrorism." Alas, terrorists aren't necessarily swayed by political logic. Despite high hopes in the Basque Country and elsewhere in Spain that ETA would declare a truce, the organization has been...
...ideological differences,” he said. “But I just think that that’s very ironic because he wrote it in 1953, and it was only a year later that Brown v. Board was handed down and it was only two years later that Rosa Parks refused to go to the back of the bus and the Montgomery boycott started and Martin Luther King became famous and the Civil Rights movement became the leading national issue...