9 h. ago Unseen photos of Rosa Parks return to Montgomery, Alabama, seven decades later

Newly released photos of Rosa Parks emphasize lesser-known aspects of her legacy

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11 h. ago What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis

The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required repeated action and tremendous sacrifice, without any certainty it would workThe Montgomery bus boycott, which began 70 years ago on 5 December 1955, is now understood as one of the most successful American social movements. And yet, much of how it is remembered is romanticized, inaccurate and even dangerous – distorting how we imagine social change happens.In the fable, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat, Black Montgomery residents rise up, a young Martin Luther King Jr is introduced to the world, and injustice is vanquished. The right action is all it takes – furthering a mythology that, without deep preparation or sacrifice, Americans can make great change with a single act. Today, in the face of rising injustice, many criticize young activists for being too disruptive, too disorganized, too impractical. But, in fact, the Montgomery movement began much earlier and took much longer than we imagine and e...

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59 h. ago What boycotting looks like 70 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott is marking its 70th anniversary

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60 h. ago Rosa Parks’ vacant former home is an emblem of racist housing policies | Bernadette Atuahene

Seventy years after the Montgomery bus boycott, policies hiding in plain sight continue to ravage the Black communityFriday is the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began because Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a white person, as required by law. While her brave act brought national attention to the civil rights movement and triggered student sit-ins to end segregation across the south, it also subjected her and her husband, Raymond, to constant death threats. Consequently, like many other Black families fleeing Jim Crow south’s racial violence, in August 1957, Rosa and Raymond moved up north to Detroit.When the Parks arrived in Detroit, they and other Black people did not have to sit at the back of the bus. Nonetheless, the city was permeated by a quieter but no less pernicious type of racism: racist policies, which are any written or unwritten laws and processes that produce or sustain racial inequity. In my book Plundered: How Racist Policies Unde...

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4 d. ago Meghan Markle's college best friend Lindsay Roth posts unseen photos of pouting Duchess posing up a storm in cheeky snaps from pre

The images were published on Instagram by the university pal, who made a cameo in the Montecito-based Duchess' Netflix festive special, 'With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration'.

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1 week ago Remarkable Great Train Robbery archive emerges 60 years later: Police chief's trove reveals unseen photos of gang's getaway cars and bundles of money

Detective Chief Superintendent Ernest Millen was head of Scotland Yard's 'Flying Squad' when the notorious multi-million-pound heist was committed on August 8, 1963.

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2 w. ago Loose Women star Brenda Edwards reveals secret boyfriend as she 'soft launches' their relationship with anniversary tribute

The Loose Women star, 56, took to Instagram on Wednesday evening and shared a photo of herself linking hands with an unseen man on their first anniversary.

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3 w. ago The supercar that shook the world: Enzo Ferrari’s life in the fast lane – in pictures

The cars, the races, the wins and the fans: Taschen’s new Ferrari book – full of unseen photographs, sketches and documents – celebrates a high-speed icon Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Lost Muhammad Ali photos seen for first time in 59 years after decades in garage

Film negatives found hidden in a garage printed for first time after nearly six decades show fantastic unseen photos of boxing legend Muhammad Ali by Mirror photographer Albert Cooper

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