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Jesse Jackson: 'We're winning' battle for racial equality

Reverend Jesse Jackson has devoted his life to civil rights activism in the US and has made various forays into diplomacy. Euronews reporter Joanna

25/08/2015

USA

US civil rights icon Julian Bond dies aged 75

American civil rights activist Julian Bond has died at the age of 75. Bond co-founded the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee in the 1960s

16/08/2015

USA

NAACP march to Washington begins with civil rights rally in Selma

The NAACP has launched a 40-day march across the US South on Saturday (August 1) with a rally in Selma, Alabama, aiming to draw on that city’s

01/08/2015

USA

Ku Klux Klan set for Confederate flag rally as black church fires probed

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is set to stroke tensions in South Carolina, it’s emerged, as investigators probe a series of fires at predominantly black

01/07/2015

USA

American Civil War flag offends many as symbol of slavery

Held for nine murders in Charleston, South Carolina, Dylann Roof has also fired up passions in the United States over the flying of a southern battle

23/06/2015

Italy

Rome: Same sex couples celebrate first civil unions

Rome’s new civil unions registry has started work. Fourteen same sex couples were among the first to seal their commitment to each other during a

21/05/2015

World News

Moroccan-born man convicted on terror charges stripped of French nationality

France’s top court ruled it was possible to strip a Moroccan-born man convicted on terror charges of his French nationality, paving the way for more

23/01/2015

Culture news

New York exhibition marks 50 years since Martin Luther King historic march

Stephen Somerstein was just 24 years old when he photographed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the five-day, 54-mile Selma to Montgomery March in

16/01/2015

Italy

Italy court grants legal rights to child born to lesbian couple

07/01/2015

France

France: Marseille backs down over 'Nazi-era' ID cards for homeless

The French city of Marseille has been forced to back down over ID cards designed to help the homeless but which caused a storm of protest from

05/12/2014

USA

Big Brother? Government demands for private Facebook data on the rise

06/11/2014

My Europe Series

How to get your voice heard in the EU

09/05/2014

USA

Folk music pioneer and activist Pete Seeger dies aged 94

28/01/2014

World

50 year anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech

28/08/2013

World

Jesse Jackson assesses Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech 50 years on

27/08/2013

USA

Why is Luther King's "I have a dream" speech so hard to find online?

23/08/2013

My Europe Series

What about my rights?

27/05/2013

My Europe Series

‘Guardians’ of EU rights also bound by charter

27/05/2013

World

The power of civic education

10/05/2013

Culture news

Erasmus students and Italian elections: a chat with the EU

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