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The Conservative Fantasy History Of Civil Rights

New York Magazine | Posted 05.22.2012

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The civil rights movement, once a controversial left-wing fringe, has grown deeply embedded into the fabric of our national story. This is a salutary ...

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Obama's and America's Remarkable Evolution on Gay Rights

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.11.2012

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Peter Dreier

Historians will no doubt view President Obama's announcement favoring same-sex marriage as an historic statement, parallel to those of FDR on workers' rights and LBJ on civil rights. But like FDR and LBJ, Obama's endorsement was due to a combination of personal belief and political opportunity.

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Profiles in Political Courage

David Morris | Posted 05.07.2012

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David Morris

In 2009 Obama put country above party.  Bringing health security to over 30 million Americans and laying the foundation for a major restructuring of our health system were sufficient rewards for him to accept the political risks.

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Expanding Title VII to Cover Union Organizing

Jake Blumgart | Posted 04.04.2012

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Jake Blumgart

Today, with unions weaker than ever before, and an influential wing of the Democratic Party shot through with anti-labor, pro-business ideology, it seems doubtful that even a carefully calibrated proposal like this could get through a Democratic-dominated Congress.

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Voter Suppression: A Real and Enduring American Issue

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 05.06.2012

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John W. Boyd Jr.

This is no time to drop our guard. Here we are in the year 2012 still requiring blacks, the poor and other minorities to jump through hoops to vote.

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Back to the Future: All Roads Lead to Selma, Alabama

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 04.30.2012

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Rev. Al Sharpton

Today, when voter ID laws have crept into dozens of states, and one of the toughest and most reprehensible anti-immigration bills passed in Alabama, we will gather once again in the deep South and march.

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Revisionist History and 'The Food Stamp President': Celebrating MLK Day With the GOP Candidates

Michael B. Keegan | Posted 03.19.2012

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Michael B. Keegan

Monday could have been an opportunity for the GOP candidates to express their support for the myriad advances of the Civil Rights movement and the problems that remain, but it turned into a mess of racially-charged attacks on African Americans, immigrants and the poor instead.

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The Fantastical Crackpot Cult of Ron Paul

Bob Cesca | Posted 03.12.2012

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Bob Cesca

People who are devoted to Ron Paul appear to be more interested in the fantastical, fictitious idea of President Ron Paul than the realistic manifestation of President Ron Paul.

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Gingrich, The Courts And A Lesson From 1930s Germany

Rev. Chuck Currie | Posted 02.18.2012

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Rev. Chuck Currie

Newt Gingrich might not be the GOP nominee for president, but his recent comments about federal courts deserve further consideration: He does not believe U.S. presidents are bound by federal court decisions they dislike.

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Speak Out: America Is a Free Speech Forum

John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.07.2012

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John W. Whitehead

When political protest is caged, it's not just the rights of a few protesters that are at stake. The very definition of freedom is in danger. Freedom cannot be exercised from within a cage.

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Why Dr. King Would Have Championed Universal Broadband Adoption

David Honig | Posted 10.26.2011

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David Honig

As the nation prepares to dedicate Dr. Martin Luther King's National Memorial, let's give ourselves this thought experiment: "What would Dr. King be doing today if he were armed with the social media and telecommunications technology we take for granted?"

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Laura Bassett

The Unemployed Can Now Apply: New Jersey Bans Discriminatory Job Ads

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 06.25.2011

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In New Jersey, it is no longer legal for employers to specify in their job ads that unemployed persons will not be considered. Gov. Chris Christie ...

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Whither the Health Care Reform Bill

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.01.2011

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Lincoln Mitchell

The messages sent from the Obama political operation suggesting the health care reform bill's historic significance largely served to underscore that a year after passage, it is not really historic at all.

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Laura Bassett

New Bill Would Ban Discrimination Against The Jobless

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, employers cannot discriminate against applicants based on race, color, religion, sex, or nation...

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Rand Paul: Compromise Only Noble On My Terms

Politics Daily | Tom Diemer | Posted 05.25.2011

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During his Senate orientation, Paul said a colleague asked him, "'Will you be a great compromiser?'" Paul said Wednesday that he had pondered the ques...

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DREAM Come True

Pablo Andreu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Civil Rights Act, DREAM Act, Bank of America, Gop, Immigration, Discrimination, Interracial Marriage, Bigotry, Politics News
Pablo Andreu

Opposing the DREAM Act is bigotry. It is political maneuvering on the part of Republican senators intent on keeping Latinos disenfranchised lest they become voting Democrats.

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Berkeley School SUED By U.S. After Denying Teacher Unpaid Leave For Muslim Pilgrimage

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The federal government sued a suburban Chicago school district Monday for denying a Muslim middle school teacher unpaid leave to ma...

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The Ex-President Inside Out and Always Centered, Revealed by His Grandson

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Anyone who loves politics, history or even the pop culture of the Sixties will be startled by the new perspective on Ike afforded by the genuinely intimate glimpses here.

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Sam Stein

Jesse Jackson Raises Specter Of 14th Amendment Challenges In Pitch To Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hoping to motivate minority and Democratic base voters, Reverend Jesse Jackson has begun airing concerns that the Republican Party could challenge the...

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Sen. Gillibrand Pledges to Ask President to Give National Address on LGBT Rights

Jeffrey Campagna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeffrey Campagna

This country is at a crisis point that demands the president address the nation and confront the issues. From what has happened in the last month, you might think we were back in 1978.

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Eat, Pray, Love and the Economic Crisis

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don McNay

Liz Gilbert said of Italy, "In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, only artistic excellence is incorruptible." I have pondered her insight for weeks. I keep asking myself the essential question. Is the US headed the way of Italy?

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Eugene Robinson: Haley Barbour's 'Civil Rights Fairy Tale'

The Washington Post | Eugene Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who may seek the Republican nomination for president, is trying to sell the biggest load of revisionist nonsense about...

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Mike May, Colorado House Minority Leader,

trib.com | TOM MORTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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The co-owner of the Holiday Inn on Casper's east side, who is Colorado's Republican House minority leader, in 2008 allegedly propositioned a female em...

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Not So Open Road

New York Times | CELIA McGEE | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Harlem postal employee and civic leader named Victor H. Green conceived the guide in response to one too many accounts of humiliation or violence wh...

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Rand Paul Radical Rhetoric Endangers Kentucky's Working Families

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Heather Taylor-Miesle

"You need to keep the EPA out of our affairs," Rand Paul called on the president. Paul may call it "federal overreach," but I call it protecting the health of Kentuckians.

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