Bernard LaFayette

Type: Person

Name: Bernard LaFayette

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

AROUND NORTHEN N.M.

Mayor has choice for city manager Public Utilities Director Brian Snyder will be Santa Fe's next city manager, at least if Mayor David Coss gets his way.Coss announced this week that he's selected Snyder as his choice to run Santa Fe city government. ... [Published Individual.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: David Coss, Brian Snyder, Bernard LaFayette

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Antonin Scalia

Voting Rights Act explored in 'Bending Toward Justice'

Earlier this year, when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Shelby County v. Holder, a case that challenges the constitutionality of a key provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Justice Antonin Scalia said that renewing the historic legislation ... [Published Bay State Boston Banner - May 01 2013]

Entities: Antonin Scalia, African-Americans, Lyndon B Johnson, Southern Company

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Baptist Theological Seminary

American Baptist College designated as an HBCU

In the early 1960s, the Nashville, Tenn., school then known as the American Baptist Theological Seminary stood shoulder-to-shoulder with local institutions, including Fisk, Vanderbilt and Tennessee State universities, based on the willingness of their ... [Published Triangle Tribune - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: American Baptist College, Bernard LaFayette, African-Americans, Baptist Theological Seminary

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

American Baptist College Designated as a Historically Black Institution

Civil rights activist Bernard Lafayette, left, and school President Forrest Harris Sr., are proponents of American Baptist College’s designation as an HBCU. ... [Published Diverse - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: American Baptist College, Bernard LaFayette

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

John Lewis

SNCC created by 'strong people'

Inspired by the publicity and effect of the protests in Greensboro (a sit-in that began with four freshmen from North Carolina A&T on Feb. 1, 1960, at the downtown Woolworths store), and Nashville (a much larger, well-organized effort that began on Feb. ... [Published Tennessean - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Julian Bond, Marion Barry, John Lewis

First reported Mar 03 2013 - Updated Mar 03 2013 - 1 reports

Jim Cooper

Political Notebook: Politics and politicians in Nashville, state

Bo Mitchell, who represents Bellevue in the Metro Council and District 50 in the state House of Representatives, said he would push for a referendum on wine in grocery stores in November 2014 if controversial legislation makes it through the General Assembly ... [Published Tennessean - Mar 03 2013]

Entities: Brian Kelsey, Jim Cooper, Civil Rights, Referendum

First reported Jan 21 2013 - Updated Jan 21 2013 - 1 reports

MLK’s final marching orders

by Kazu Haga. 1965 anti-civil rights billboard in Selma, Ala., showing Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Highlander School. (Flickr/Penn State Special Collections) “Now, Bernard, the next movement we’re going to have is to institutionalize and internationalize ... [Published Waging Nonviolence - Jan 21 2013]

Entities: Bernard LaFayette, nonviolent resistance, nonviolent, Poor People's Campaign

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