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19 February, 2008 by REEP Categories :
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Rev. James Orange

(BlackPressMagazine.com) - Rev. James Orange, a civil rights activist whose 1965 jailing sparked a fatal protest that ultimately led to the famed Selma-to-Montgomery march and the Voting Rights Act, died Saturday at Atlanta’s Crawford Long Hospital. He was 65.
 
Orange was a native of Birmingham, Alabama, "who resided in southwest Atlanta for four decades while fighting the good fight for equality and social justice for all mankind," said leaders from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in a recently released statement.
 
Orange was arrested and jailed in Perry County, Alabama, in 1965 on charges of disorderly conduct and contributing to the delinquency of minors for enlisting students to aid in voting rights drives.
 
Orange was a project coordinator at the SCLC from 1965 to 1970, then later became a regional coordinator with the AFL-CIO in Atlanta, the SCLC said. Since 1995, he had served as the founder and general coordinator for the M.L. King Jr. March Committee-Africa/African American Renaissance Committee, Inc., which coordinated commemorative events honoring King and also promoted industry and commerce among Atlanta, the United States and South Africa.
 
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3 February, 2008 by REEP Categories :
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New Celeb-Filled Music Video for Obama

Song from Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am Inspired by Obama Speech

Celebrity-filled music videos have been used to support many social movements, from famine relief for Africa, to support for American farmers, to opposition to apartheid in South Africa.

But rarely have celebrities and musicians banded together to create new music in the heat of a presidential campaign.

The Black Eyed Peas’ frontman, songwriter and producer known as will.i.am, along with director and filmmaker Jesse Dylan, son of another socially active musician, Bob Dylan, released a new song Friday that attempts to do just that.

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3 February, 2008 by REEP Categories :
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Yes We Can!

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1 February, 2008 by REEP Categories :
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Civil Rights Leader Myrlie Evers-Williams to Speak at ASU

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – (February 1, 2008) - Myrlie Evers-Williams is perhaps best remembered as the widow of Medgar Evers, the Mississippi state field secretary for the NAACP who, in 1963, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson. In the years since the assassination and two hung juries that left the accused gunman, white supremacist Byron De la Beckwith, a free man, Evers-Williams has persevered to keep her husband’s memory and dreams alive and to bring his killer to justice.

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11 January, 2008 by REEP Categories :
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Oakwood University - It’s Official

A special meeting of Oakwood’s constituency delegates representing the school’s core groups changed the name of the112-year-old institution on Sunday, December 2,2007.  Appreciating the rich history of the name Oakwood, the delegates’vote for “Oakwood University” brought closure to extensive discussions engaging administrators, faculty, staff, and students during the past several months in efforts to facilitate diversity of input.

The final vote followed two hours of careful deliberation that began 10 years ago in response to questions surrounding strategic planning for the institution’s future direction.  Such discussions provided a springboard for the issue of incorporating graduate program offerings as a part of the institution’s academic goals.

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