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This year marks the loss of civil rights veterans who worked in hostile territories to dismantle Jim Crow and register Black residents to vote.

This year marks the loss of civil rights veterans who worked in hostile territories to dismantle Jim Crow and register Black residents to vote.

This Black History Month, as history struggles to keep up with current events, we can remember how we got here as we keep our eyes on the future.

Skip to main content Currently Reading He joined the Freedom Rides of the '60s for what he thought would be a weekend. It turned out to be more than two years. Rachel Hatzipanagos, The Washington Post Feb. 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Freedom Rider Dion Diamond sitting in his home office on May 21, 2011 in Washington, D.C.Washington Post photo by Mark Gail. Dion Diamond, 79, participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961, when activists rode buses from Washington, D.C. to Jackson, Miss., to challenge segregation. While some of the most famous Freedom Riders, including the late Rep. John Lewis, D-...

The top 12 wine bargains of 2020 include an outstanding boxed malbec for the equivalent of $5 a bottle Dave McIntyre The most unusual wine I tasted this year was a bubbly from Slovenia called Untouched by Light. It was made by the Radgonske Gorice winery, which dates back to the Hapsburgs, with the premise that any exposure to light damages wine. The grapes were harvested at night and the wine produced, bottled and aged in an unlit cave by workers wearing night-vision goggles, then packaged in black bottles, wrapped in vacuum-sealed black bags and shipped off to lucky invite...