
The Guardian - 1 hour 50 min ago
Civil rights leader will get final full honors from state where, in 1960, he led Black students into segregated library After a long career of fighting for civil rights, the Rev Jesse Jackson Sr is visiting his home for one last time to lie in state at the South Carolina capitol on Monday. The final full honors from the state where he was born is a far cry from his childhood in segregated Greenville, where in 1960 he couldn't go inside the local library's much better funded whites-only branch...

The Guardian - 3 hours 2 min ago
Slew of bills in veto-proof Republican state legislature harm individual rights and concentrate power, rights groups say Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican hard-right governor, will be termed out of office in barely 10 months' time. Civil rights groups watching a slew of new restrictive laws passing through the state's legislature say his bequest will be a "police state", where government officials dictate what residents can do, say or believe. They point in particular to two...