Civil Rights Movement

Accessorizing Hate

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Bias, Jesus, Non-Profits, Gays and Lesbians, United States, Love, Bigotry, Minorities, Civil Rights Movement, Hate Crimes, Intolerance, Southern Baptists, Kindness, Non-Profit-Tax-Status, Religious Tolerance, Civil Rights, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Christianity and Homosexuality, Murder, Politics, God, Hate Speech, Politics News

When we choose silence in the face of bigotry, we threaten the lifeblood of our Union. We've all experienced more than a few bigots in our lives. Th...

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"Whom Shall I Fear?" The Incomparable Testimony Of Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Congressman John Lewis, Student-Nonviolent-Coordinating-Committee, Faith and Civil Rights, Naacp, Civil Rights Movement, John Lewis, Civl Rights John Lewis, Becoming-Fearless, Religion News

Congressman John Lewis is the last living leader of the civil rights movement. I spoke with him about his new book and the role that faith, nonviolence and reconciliation played in the civil rights movement.

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Jay-Z: Same-Sex Discrimination No Different Than Discriminating Against Blacks

Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Video, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, President Obama, Jay-Z Obama, Jay-Z, Jesse Jackson, Obama Gay Marriage, Slideexpand, Jesse Jackson Civil Rights, Jesse Jackson Gay Marriage, Jay-Z Gay Marriage, Black Voices News

Since President Barack Obama made his historic announcement last week in support of legalizing same-sex marriage, some black celebrities have drawn pa...

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Gay Marriage and a New American Majority

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: LGBT Rights, Lgbt, Civil Rights Movement, Undocumented Immigrants, James Baldwin, Obama Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Voices News

A different American majority is emerging, and what it means to be a minority in a country that will soon be minority-majority is being redefined.

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A New Generation Debuts: Plurals

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Gloria Steinem, Civil Rights Movement, Alan Ginsberg, Reverend Martin Luther King, James Dean, Beat Generation, Plural Generation, Millennial Generation, Business News

Evidence of the arrival of America's newest adaptive generation has surfaced in recent research, which is beginning to define how and why this latest Adaptive generation differs from the older Millennial Generation.

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Bringing the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement Into 21st Century Classrooms

Charlayne Hunter-Gault | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Black History, Civil Rights Movement, African-American History, African Americans, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, Segregation, American History, Civil Rights Leaders, Nelson Mandela, Apartheid, Rosa Parks, South Africa, Education News

How do we encourage young people at home and abroad, in South Africa and now those young people heavily invested in the as yet unsettled Arab Spring, to "keep on keepin' on," as the footsoldiers of the Civil Rights Movement used to pledge?

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The Trayvon Martin and Tulsa Shootings: The Time for Inaction Is Over

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Trayvon Martin Case, Travyon Martin, Tulsa Shooting, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Civil Rights Movement, Amadou Diallo, Civil Rights, National Action Network, Black Voices News

It's time all of us engage in a long-term conversation on the elephant in the room -- race. And as the Trayvon Martin case tragically proves, the topic cannot be discussed without dedicating an equal amount of time towards a serious look at our justice system.

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How 1950s Civil Rights Activists Are Like Billionaire Campaign Donors

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Video, Karl Rove, Civil Rights Movement, Karl Rove Naacp, 501c4, Citizens United, Karl Rove's, Crossroads GPS, Naacp, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- What do modern-day billionaires attempting to secretly buy federal elections have in common with blacks in the 1950s who needed to keep ...

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Mad Men (Finally) Returns: Worth the Wait?

William Bradley | Posted 05.27.2012

Fortunately, Woodstock is still a long ways off. And the Summer of Love is, too (along with San Francisco), though it's just over a year away in the Mad Men universe. But the rumblings of change -- in this case racial change and generational change -- are getting much louder.

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Justice For Trayvon Martin: Where Are Our White Faith Leaders?

Mark I. Pinsky | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Bible, Martin Luther King, Old Testament, Civil Rights, Trayvon Martin, Religion News

In the halcyon days of the 1960s civil rights movement, no march, protest or demonstration in the South was complete without white ministers, priests and rabbis. But in the case of Trayvon Martin, local white faith leaders have been missing from action.

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How I Happened to Write My Memoirs

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Autobiography, Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual, Memoirs, Vietnam War Memoirs, Academia, Civil Rights Movement Memoirs, Memoirs of an Activist, Lawrence Wittner, Historian Lawrence Wittner, Books News

My recently-published autobiography, Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual, highlights the connection between intellectual and political activity.

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Internalized Oppression: The New Slavery

Logan Lynn | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Oppression, LGBT Rights, Racism, Internalized Oppression, Internalized Homophobia, Civil Rights, Internalized Stereotypes, Gay Voices News

This brand of slavery imprisons the mind and poisons the spirit. It keeps us shackled to an idea someone else has about our worth and tells us we are wrong to feel human, that we are not equal, and that we are, in fact, nothing but a hog being fattened up for the kill.

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Dr. King's Dream: 700 Credit Score Communities

John Hope Bryant | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mlk Memorial, MLK Monument, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monument, Civil-Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Poverty, US Poverty, Civil Rights, Impact News

Economic justice is at the root of all social justice. Today, we must make Dr. King's dream real by actually making free enterprise and capitalism work for the poor and the under-served.

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Voter Suppression: A Real and Enduring American Issue

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Voters, Civil Rights Act, Voter ID Laws, Voter ID, Voter Suppression, Voting, Civil Rights Movement, Black Voters, Civil Rights, Minority Voters, Voter Fraud, Politics News

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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The Civil Rights Movement and Public Religion

Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights Movement, Marco Rubio, Martin Luther King, Roy Blunt, Darrell Issa, Rick Santorum, Religion and Politics, Birth Control, Bv-Politics, Politics News

Freedom as an American cultural value and freedom as a religious value are related but they are not the same. Freedom of religion is also freedom from religion.

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Clarence B. Jones Shares Wisdom, Memories at Viewpoint School

Matt Pournazarian | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, ?I Have a Dream? Speech, Martin Luther King, Clarence B. Jones, Letter From Birmingham Jail, Black History Month, Los Angeles News

In a world in which hate-filled politics and growing inter-class tensions fill article word-counts, a message like the one delivered by Dr. Jones was and is necessary.

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

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Alabama, Al Sharpton, Civil Rights Movement, Selma, 2012 Election, John Lewis, Selma Alabama, Civil Rights Act, Elections 2012, Voter ID Laws, National Action Network, Civil Rights, Reverend Al Sharpton, Alabama Voter ID Laws, Black Voices News

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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Will The Help's Oscar Revive Interest in The Long Walk Home?

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.28.2012

In contrast to The Help, The Long Walk Home shows African-American maids as active participants in the civil rights struggle -- and remains a much more uplifting and hard-hitting movie about the plight and pluck of black domestic servants confronting racism.

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Black Job Seekers are Still at the Back of the Bus

Algernon Austin | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, African Americans, Black Unemployment, Unemployment, Bv-Politics, Bv-Money, Black History Month, Black Voices News

When we celebrate Black History Month, we often celebrate the successes of the Civil Rights Movement. But I never hear anyone speak of the many goals that the Movement did not achieve. One such goal is the goal of full employment for African Americans.

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Andrew Young III, Son Of Civil Rights Icon, Carries Torch In His Own Direction

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 02.13.2012

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When Andrew "Bo" Young III was a teenager, strangers would come up to him and tell him that he should be more like his father. The community needed hi...

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The Woman Some Are Dubbing 'The Female Barack Obama'

Reuters | Posted 04.11.2012

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By Tim Reid and Aruna Viswanatha Feb 9 (Reuters) - California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a veteran prosecutor with acute politica...

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Nichelle Nichols On TV's First Interracial Kiss And Her Encounter With 'Trekkie' Dr. Martin Luther King

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Video, Civil Rights Movement, William Shatner, Capt. James T Kirk, Nichelle Nichols, Slidepollajax, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., First Televised Interracial Kiss, Science Fiction, Gene Roddenberry, Black History Month, Lt. Nyota Uhura, Star Trek, Black Voices News

Nichelle Nichols' life has moved at the kind of warp speed her "Star Trek" character Lt. Nyota Uhura took for granted. When television writer and p...

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Michelle Obama's Ancestors: The Great Migration

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Flotus, Michelle Obama, Heritage, Underground Railroad, Civil Rights, History, Jim Crow, Chicago Defender, Ancestors, Chicago, Ancestry, Roots, Genealogy, African Americans, Great Migration, Celebrity News

This is the second in a series about the ancestry of the First Lady. The introduction can be found here: Michelle Obama's Ancestors: Chicago Beginni...

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Christie Calls Legislator 'Numbnuts'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Cory Booker, Chris Christie, Gay Marriage Civil Rights, John Lewis, Chris Christie Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Marriage New Jersey, Chris Christie New Jersey, Video, Reed Gusciora, New Jersey Gay Marriage, Christie Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage New Jersey, Gay Marriage, Politics News

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is still clarifying a comment he made last Tuesday linking a possible gay marriage referendum in the state to the c...

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Memory and The Freedom Maze

Kelly Cogswell | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Delia Sherman, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Children's Books, Lesbian, Books, Freedom Maze, Gay Voices, Fantasy, Books News

Books like The Freedom Maze remind us that it's a radical act to remember -- or imagine -- the past, which is all history is, and why it's so essential.

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