By Freddie Allen (Editor-in-Chief, NNPA Newswire) In the early morning hours of January 10, 1966, civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr. was jolted from his sleep, as members of the Ku Klux Klan surrounded his house just north of Hattiesburg, Miss. Dahmer, a Black land-owner, had been actively working to register Blacks to vote and, […]
CBC Members Call Trump Presence at Museum Opening an Insult
John Lewis and Bennie Thompson Spar with President Trump Over Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Dedication By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) When two members of the Congressional Black Caucus, longtime Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), heard that President Donald Trump planned to attend the Mississippi Civil […]