Louisiana Lawmaker Threatens Saints' Tax Breaks After Anthem Protests
A Louisiana state legislator wants to cut off tax breaks and other funding for the state's only NFL franchise, the New Orleans Saints. State Rep. Kenny Havard , a Republican, objects to player protests...
View ArticleJudge Throws Out Challenge To Alabama Voter ID Law
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Alabama's voter ID law. U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler on Wednesday rejected arguments by civil rights groups that...
View ArticleEdgar Ray Killen Dies; Klansman Behind Civil Rights Workers' Murders In 1964
Edgar Ray Killen, the former Ku Klux Klansman responsible for a notorious civil rights era murder, has died in a Mississippi prison. Killen orchestrated the killings of three Freedom Summer workers in...
View ArticleSanitation Workers Took Trucks Off The Road To Honor 2 Killed 50 Years Ago In...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Sanitation workers pulled their garbage trucks off the road today in cities across the nation. They did so to honor two garbage workers...
View ArticleScientists: Long-Buried Ice Age Forest Offers Climate Change Clues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKm0eRfFFfo About 10 miles off the Alabama coast, Ben Raines gently falls backward from a boat into the Gulf of Mexico, a scuba tank strapped to his back and handsaw on...
View ArticleGoodbye, Mr. Okra: New Orleans Remembers Its Singing Vegetable Vendor
Remember how happy you were as a kid to hear the distant music of the ice cream truck get louder as it drove closer to your block? Residents of New Orleans would get that feeling when they heard the...
View ArticleWhen MLK Was Killed, He Was In Memphis Fighting For Economic Justice
It was a call for help from activists that took the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in March 1968. Days later he would be fatally shot by James Earl Ray on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. But...
View Article50 years After MLK Assassination, What Comes Next?
In Memphis and across the nation, thousands are gathering — and some are protesting — to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The day honors King's work, looks...
View ArticleAfter MLK's Death, Coretta Scott King Went To Memphis To Finish His Work
Coretta Scott King was often referred to as the "first lady of civil rights," known primarily as the wife and then widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But her presence in Memphis, Tenn., just four...
View ArticleLynching Memorial In Alabama Will Reflect On U.S. History Of Racial Terror
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Montgomery, Ala., has been a draw for history buffs for a long time. It's a city known for both being the cradle of the Confederacy and the...
View ArticleNew Lynching Memorial Is A Space 'To Talk About All Of That Anguish'
Editor's note: This report contains language and an image some may find offensive or upsetting. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice stands high on a hillside overlooking downtown Montgomery,...
View ArticleHow A Mule Train From Marks, Miss., Kicked Off MLK's Poor People Campaign
Fifty years ago today, a mule train left the small town of Marks, Miss., bound for the nation's capital. They were answering a call to action the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made just days before he...
View ArticleBritish Prime Minister Faces Pressure To Reform Northern Ireland's Abortion Laws
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Let's turn now to the historic vote in Ireland which overturned that country's ban on abortion. Now, that vote does not extend to...
View ArticleRepeal Of Abortion Ban In Ireland Sets Off Calls For Change In Northern Ireland
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The recent vote in Ireland to repeal its abortion ban is setting off calls for change in neighboring Northern Ireland, which still has...
View ArticleIreland Voted To Allow Abortion. But It's Still Strictly Banned In Northern...
The recent vote in Ireland to repeal its abortion ban is setting off calls for change in neighboring Northern Ireland, which still has strict laws on the procedure that date to Victorian times. But...
View ArticleVoters In Florida's Panhandle Still Have Faith In Trump's Foreign Policy
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump has faced criticism this week for his evolving statements on Russia and his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin....
View Article'Unite The Right' Rally Forced Charlottesville To Rethink Town's Racial History
Charlottesville has long been known known as a charming college town — home to the University of Virginia and its founder Thomas Jefferson. After a deadly clash between white nationalists and...
View ArticleDressing For A Queen: Aretha Franklin Fans Pay Tribute To The Late Singer
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: Detroit is celebrating the life of the queen of soul in royal style this week before her funeral on Friday. For a second day, Aretha Franklin...
View ArticleRemembering The Queen Of Soul In Detroit
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Senator John McCain is lying in state today at the Rotunda at the United States Capitol. Vice President Pence, members of the military, the...
View Article'I Lost Literally Everything': Historic Town Cleans Up After Catastrophic...
In downtown New Bern, N.C. , accountant Mike Rogers, hammer in hand, spent Sunday tearing 2 feet of drenched drywall out of his CPA office. "At least it's not tax season," he says, trying to keep a...
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