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Clyde Bellecourt, leader in the Red Power movement for Native American civil rights, died Tuesday at his home in Minneapolis. He was 85.

Clyde Bellecourt, one of the most influential leaders in the Red Power movement and fight for Native American civil rights, died Tuesday at his home in Minneapolis. He was 85. 

Article by Social Share Photojournalist Clyde Jones was laid to rest today on home soil after he died over a month ago in Brooklyn, New York. It was his second funeral service, following the first which was held in late April at St Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in East Flatbush, New York. For more than an hour, family and friends of the 90-year-old paid their finals respects at St Mary’s Church, Bridgetown, where Jones’ coffin was covered with the flag of the Barbados Legion.   Clyde ...

Share Debut author Julie Carrick Dalton deserves praise for making concerns about important social issues – climate change and immigration – an integral part of her new novel. It isn’t always easy to do that without turning a book into a lecture or consciousness-raising exercise. In this case, the story remains uppermost, and the characters themselves embody the (mostly) good impulses. One memorable summer, about 25 years before the present day of the novel, a friendship was forged betwee...