Civil Rights
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Photographer Charles Moore dies at 79
Seattle Times &bull 55 Minutes Ago
The Times Daily of Florence, Ala., reported that Moore began covering the movement as the lone photographer at the scene when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Montgomery in 1958. In the years that followed, the Alabama… Full Story »
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Bob Siegel: Hey Ken! Couldn't You Have Picked A Less Controversial Girlfriend?
Townhall.com - User Blogs &bull TodayWal-Mart is in trouble for selling black Barbie dolls at a cheaper price than white Barbie dolls. Is the store racist? Civil Rights groups seem to think so.Read entire story on San Diego Rostra.Also by Bob Siegel:Words and Phrases That… Full Story »
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- San Diego
W. Raymond Duncan - World Politics in the 21st Century
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Appeals Court Upholds Conviction In Miss. Killings
Pure Horserace (CBS News) &bull Yesterday
Appeals Court Affirms Conviction Of Reputed Klansman In Civil Rights Era Cold Case In Miss. Full Story »
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Civil Rights Activist Found Dead
Truthdig &bull Mar 12, 2010
Juanita Goggins, a "trailblazing" civil rights activist and the first black woman elected to South Carolina's state legislature, passed away more than two weeks ago but was only found recently in her home in Columbia, SC. Goggins died from pneumonia… Full Story »
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'Shop Talk': Rep. Massa's 'Groping' Drama
NPR Politics & Society &bull Mar 12, 2010
In this week's installment of the Barbershop host Michel Martin talks with freelance writer Jimi Izrael, civil rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar, syndicated columnist Gustavo Arellano, who writes the "Ask A Mexican" column for the OC Weekly, and Zack Rosen, who… Full Story »
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Duncan Kennedy - Sexy Dressing Etc: Essays on the Power and Politics of Cultural Identity
sponsored listing • Shopping.comIn this title, the author argues that an American radicalism is both possible and desirable. His aim is to take the two bases for radical politics--the big institutional workplace and popular culture--and wed the rebelliousness, irony, and irrationalism of cultural modernism and postmodernism to the...Full Story »
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Lesbian sues high school to reinstate prom
New York Post &bull Mar 12, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Thursday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oxford on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen, who said she faced some unhappy classmates after the Itawamba County School District said it wouldn't… Full Story »
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- Education
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- ACLU
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Dr. Irene S. Levine: Can we live without friends?
Huffington Post &bull Mar 12, 2010
This week, some 800 miles away, Juanita Goggins, 75, also a former schoolteacher, who earned the distinction of becoming the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, was found frozen to death at home. Born to… Full Story »
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America can only be Right: 'Radicalizing Civil Rights'
Townhall.com - User Blogs &bull Mar 11, 2010March 9, 2010 4:00 A.M.Radicalizing Civil RightsThe people behind the Civil Rights Division's politicization.In his State of the Union address, President Obama mentioned the protections enshrined in the Constitution and said, "No matter who you are or what you look… Full Story »
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David Finkle: The Scottsboro Boys: New Kander-Ebb Musical, Old Kander-Ebb Formula
Huffington Post &bull Mar 11, 2010
Kander and Ebb followed that blockbuster with Chicago, wherein numbers shed cynical light on American corruption as exemplified in a big city during, again, the Jazz Age. Approaching Manual Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, the pair surrounded a harsh… Full Story »
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- Chicago
Duncan Kelly - The State of the Political: Conceptions of Politics and the State in the Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann
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Liam Julian: Ominous Rumblings at the Department of Education
Townhall.com - Columnists &bull Mar 11, 2010The Department of Education is often misleading, vague and ominous. An odd announcement from Secretary Arne Duncan states that his department's Office of Civil Rights will "reinvigorate civil rights enforcement" in the nation's schools in an effort "to make Dr.… Full Story »
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Glenn W. Smith: Conservatives Re-Write Declaration of Independence
Huffington Post &bull Mar 11, 2010
The Civil Rights Movement created "unrealistic expectations of equal outcomes" among minorities, according to Texas conservatives trying to rewrite American history textbooks. They want students to learn that bit of undemocratic, phony history. The Texas State Board of Education, dominated… Full Story »
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- Minorities
- Civil Rights
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Ed Hooper: Putting Black History in Context
Huffington Post &bull Mar 11, 2010
The actions of three Los Angeles teachers at the Wadsworth Avenue Elementary school who gave children photographs of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to hold during a parade honoring black history month as a prank earned a suspension for… Full Story »
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Enough Glowing Comparisons, Glenn Beck's Tea Party Is Heir to John Birch Society
AlterNet &bull Mar 11, 2010
The Tea Party that worships Sarah Palin and screams for Barack Obama's birth certificate doesn't merit comparison to positive social movements of the 1960s. According to this nascent meme, today's conservative grassroots holds strong echoes of earlier radicalism on the… Full Story »
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Obama and the Left at the Brink
American Thinker &bull Mar 11, 2010
President Obama's attempt to paint the Republicans into a corner with his latest health care reform proposal, and his determination to pass health care reform using outright lies and obfuscation, highlights what has become the motto of this administration: The end justifies any means. Is this what the majority of the Left in America signed onto? In President Obama's desperation to pass his radical health care reform bill, we have had the public show of the Obama administration… Full Story »
Duncan Watts - Understanding American Government And Politics: A Guide For A2 Politics Students
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Behind Enemy Lines: Holder: Better That Americans Die
Townhall.com - User Blogs &bull Mar 11, 2010Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder claimed in 2004 that successful terrorist attacks inside America are preferable to even the slightest violation of a terrorist's "civil rights." Any American President's Constitutional duty to protect America from attack is subservient to the… Full Story »
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America can only be Right: Dan Rather Explains his Watermelon Comment
Townhall.com - User Blogs &bull Mar 11, 2010It started this past Sunday when I appeared on Chris Matthews' syndicated talk show. I've known and respected Chris for many years and I enjoy doing his show. I take the train down from my home in New York to… Full Story »
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Gains in the 1960s Made Obama's Election Possible
U.S. News & World Report &bull Mar 10, 2010
Massive social change fueled a profound surge forward by the civil rights movement in the 1960s, one of the most important developments in American history. Between 1940 and 1960, 4.5 million blacks moved out of the South to the cities… Full Story »
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Dan Rather Apologizes for 'Watermelons' Comment
Newsbusters &bull Mar 10, 2010
March 8 Chris Matthews Show. In his explanation Rather offers his Texas background as an excuse saying, "I used the analogy of selling watermelons by the side of the road. It's an expression that stretches to my boyhood roots in… Full Story »
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America can only be Right: Education Secretary Duncan to Pressure Schools to Enforce Civil Rights Laws
Townhall.com - User Blogs &bull Mar 10, 2010Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to announce Monday that his agency is ramping up enforcement of civil rights laws in schools and colleges, a move that seeks to draw a contrast with the policies of his Republican predecessors. In a… Full Story »
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Mya Guarnieri: On the eve of Passover, Israel has forgotten it is a Jewish state
Huffington Post &bull Mar 10, 2010
The Oz Unit, an arm of the immigration police, is on the streets now cracking down on illegal residents and those that employ them. The campaign, part of Israel's ongoing attempt to rid the country of non-Jewish foreigners, has been… Full Story »
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- Immigration
- Civil Rights
