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Investigators found the remains of Emma Compton-Layne, 52, in a wooded area in Nathalie, Virginia. Emma had been missing since June 17, 2017.
Investigators found the remains of Emma Compton-Layne, 52, in a wooded area in Nathalie, Virginia. Emma had been missing since June 17, 2017.
The father of a 3-year-old girl whose body was found in a culvert near their suburban Dallas home little more than a year after she was adopted from an Indian orphanage was indicted Friday on a capital murder charge.
The father of a 3-year-old girl whose body was found in a culvert near their suburban Dallas home little more than a year after she was adopted from an Indian orphanage was indicted Friday on a capital murder charge.
The father of a 3-year-old girl whose body was found in a culvert near their suburban Dallas home little more than a year after she was adopted from an Indian orphanage was indicted Friday on a capital murder charge.
King and Meany Brought Civil Rights and Labor Together for a Legacy That Continues Today
AFL-CIO
Beginning in 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and then-President George Meany of the AFL-CIO began a relationship that would help bring the labor and civil rights movements together with a combined focus on social and economic justice.
Meany was an outspoken defender of individual freedom, and in March 1960, he emphasized the crucial link between the union and the civil rights movements. He told an AFL-CIO gathering, "What we want for ourselves, we want for all humanity." Meany met with King to privately discuss how they could work together. King proposed that the AFL-CIO invest pension assets in housing, to help lessen economic inequality. The AFL-CIO then established the Investment Department in August 1960 to guide union pension funds to be socially responsible investors.
The next year, King spoke to the AFL-CIO Executive Council, comparing what labor had achieved to what the civil rights movement wanted to accomplish: "We are confronted by powerful forces telling us to rely on the good will and understanding of...
Before the uproar over his "shithole countries' comment, President Trump's remarks about race or ethnicity in official meetings raised eyebrows.
Ronnie Lucas Wilson, allegedly an Aryan Nations gang member, opened fire at a police officer in Knoxville, Tenn., after being stopped for speeding, police said.
Ronnie Lucas Wilson, allegedly an Aryan Nations gang member, opened fire at a police officer in Knoxville, Tenn., after being stopped for speeding, police said.
Before the uproar over his "shithole countries' comment, President Trump's remarks about race or ethnicity in official meetings raised eyebrows.
