civil rights
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The building features giant stone letters on the top spelling out part of a speech that Obama gave in 2015 in Selma, Alabama, the cradle of the civil rights movement.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Trump also mentioned the famous 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., spoken to an audience at the National Mall, where the reflecting pool is located.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Dhillon oversees the department’s civil rights division, while the investigations into Epstein were criminal matters.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
“On a number of issues that would primarily impact conditions in low-income communities, grassroots blacks have registered opinions that are sharply at odds with the positions taken by the civil rights cadres.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
And longtime congressman John Lewis, a veteran civil rights activist and moving spirit of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, denounced the ruling as a major blow to minorities in the United States.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
