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Mystery Surrounds Disappearance Of Ohio Man

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.08.2012

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An Ohio man's sudden disappearance has baffled family members and investigators, who found his vehicle abandoned in West Virginia five days after he w...

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The Professors of Protest and the University of Revolution

John Jackson | Posted 05.30.2011

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John Jackson

Srdja Popovic, a former Otpor leader and Founder of CANVAS will be speaking at Columbia University next week on the strategy and organization of non-violent revolution.

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Honoring Guy Carawan

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

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Friends and fans of Guy Carawan will honor the legendary singer, folklorist, and activist whose arrangement of "We Shall Overcome" became the anthem of the American civil rights movement.

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Nashville: Not Just Flooded with Water; But Civil Rights Memories

Molly Secours | Posted 11.17.2011

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Molly Secours

This week as Nashville struggles to deal with ferocious floods -- that so far have taken 10 lives -- I am am reminded of the markers of time which are currently submerged in water.

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Civil Rights Movement Reassembles to Ask: What's Next?

Saul Landau | Posted 05.25.2011

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Saul Landau

On February 1, 1960, four black students took seats at a lunch counter at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's. The white waitresses ignored th...

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