Woolworth Building, Blue Ridge Parkway designated as National Historic Landmarks
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The F.W. Woolworth building and the Blue Ridge Parkway were named National Historic Landmarks by the ...
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State lawmakers, Greensboro community react to Yvonne Johnson's death
from the March on Washington to the Greensboro Sit-ins while she was a student at Bennet College, where I taught for forty years. She took my seat on the Greensboro City Council and led our city ...
Watch: Rep. Kathy Manning honors late Greensboro councilwoman ‘pillar of the community’ Yvonne Johnson
A North Carolina representative took to the floor of the US House of Representatives to honor the memory of a departed ...
Activist Raquel Willis believes Democrats have abandoned trans people
In the face of ‘eradication’, one trans activist is preparing to fight – and she’s sick of silence and neglect from her ...
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Trans Rights Organizers Say Democrats Are Using Trump as a ‘Scapegoat’ for Their Own Inaction
Willis says the Gender Liberation Movement modeled their protest after the famous Greensboro sit-ins for civil rights in the 1960s. The Capitol Hill bathroom protest was a direct response to Mace ...
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The woman behind Capitol bathroom protest says trans people can’t trust Democrats to protect them
(Manning, Willis says, has been involved since earlier this year.) According to Willis, the protest was modelled on the 1960 ...
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Activist Raquel Willis believes Democrats have abandoned trans people
According to Willis, the protest was modelled on the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, organised by four Black students against racial segregation in North Carolina, as well as the barroom "sip-in" staged ...
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The woman behind Capitol bathroom protest says trans people can’t trust Democrats to protect them
According to Willis, the protest was modelled on the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, organised by four Black students against racial segregation in North Carolina, as well as the barroom "sip-in" staged ...
Thomas Gaither, member of Rock Hill's Friendship Nine, dies in Pennsylvania
Thomas Gaither was one of the Friendship Nine, the Black civil rights demonstrators who were arrested at a restaurant sit-in ...
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Yvonne Johnson, first Black mayor of Greensboro, has died
“My friend led a life of change and justice-making, from the March on Washington to the Greensboro Sit-ins while she was a student at Bennet College, where I taught for forty years. She took my seat ...