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Klansman Who Almost Got Away With Murder Dies in Prison

Mark Potok | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, James Ford Seale, Mississippi White Knights, Freedom Summer, Ku Klux Klan, Kkk, Politics News
Mark Potok

James Ford Seale, a long-time member of the Ku Klux Klan who very nearly got away with murder, has died after serving less than four years of three life sentences for the 1964 murders of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, both 19.

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Barbour-Backed Civil Rights Museum Approved By Mississippi Lawmakers

AP | By SHELIA BYRD | Posted 06.04.2011

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JACKSON, Miss. -- Lawmakers on Monday approved a bill authorizing the multimillion-dollar construction of two new Mississippi museums – one devo...

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Religions Are Better Together, College Students Will Prove It

Eboo Patel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interfaith, Barack Obama, Obama Faith Council, Activism, Better Together Campaign, Interfaith Service Projects, Freedom Summer, White House Faith Office, Interfaith Youth Core, Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Religion News
Eboo Patel

Imagine a day where 10,000 college students are trained to be interfaith leaders and are operating on 1,500 of the nation's campuses in campaigns involving hundreds of thousands of their fellow students.

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US to Muslims: Please Sit at the Back of the Bus

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

Islamophobia is growing in the United States. Hate graffiti is now discoloring my own building here in New York City -- calling for the Holy Quran to ...

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 05.25.2011

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"One Day," David Nicholls The New York Times It's about a winsome but schematic love story that depends entirely upon its characters' maddening limi...

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400 Former Obama Staffers: Don't Demobilize the Troops Before the Battle With the Insurance Industry

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Elk

It has become clear that Obama's supporters are beginning to lose faith and the desire to fight for the president if he drops the public option.

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July 17, 1984: Carrying the Baton from King to Obama

Steve Cobble | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Cobble

It takes nothing away from the absolutely brilliant campaign that Obama and Axelrod and Plouffe ran last year to point out that because of Jackson's two incredible campaigns, they started closer to the finish line.

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Culture Zohn: Here's to Eddie and Michael and Barack: Three Who Have Changed the World

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Schwerner, 1963, Freedom Summer, Andrew Goodman, New Rochelle, Desegregation, James Chaney, Mississippi, Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama Election Day, Obama Wins, HuffPost Election Analysis, Presidential Results, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Election Analysis, Obama President, Politics News
Patricia Zohn

I thought, maybe finally the last barriers separating blacks from believing they can get, and will get, what they strive for, can begin to be crossed.

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