John Lewis

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

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 05.27.2012

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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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Dream Act Supporters Sue The Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.15.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Would-be Dream Act beneficiaries aren't just angry that the bill failed in the Senate in 2010: Some also are joining a lawsuit seeking a...

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WATCH GOP Rep To Civil Rights Leader: I'm Sorry

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 05.11.2012

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Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a leading figure in the civil rights movement, took to the House floor late Wednesday night to call out a colleague over an a...

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Dear Daniel Ellsberg

Peter Van Buren | Posted 04.24.2012

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When I faced a crisis of conscience, to tell what I knew because it needed to be told, coming to realize I was risking at the least my job if not jail, I remembered the Pentagon Papers from 1971 you risked the same and more to release.

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The American Promise: The Right to Vote

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Marc Morial, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Impact News, John Lewis, Civil Rights, Rev. Hosea Williams, Voting Rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Montgomery, Politics, National Urban League, Alabama, Human Rights, Selma, Presidential Campaign, Edmund Pettus Bridge, President Lyndon Johnson, Bloody Sunday, Impact, Voting, Black Voices, Voting Information, Elections 2012, Election, Elections, 2012 Election, Election 2012, Voter Suppression, Politics News

Right now many states are attempting to put new voting restrictions in place that parallel all the old tricks and turn back the clock on civil rights to the days when voting was used as a tool for political control and exclusion.

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LGBT Rights: A Matter of Fairness

Laura W. Murphy | Posted 05.09.2012

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The fight for LGBT rights comes down to the very basic truth that for equality to have real meaning, fairness and equal treatment under the law must extend to everyone.

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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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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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Christie Calls Legislator 'Numbnuts'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 02.01.2012

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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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Iran Threat Reduction Act Actually Enhances Threat of War

Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Ed Markey, Ben Ray Lujan, Yvette Clark, Sam Farr, John Lewis, Barney Frank, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Obama Administration, Diplomacy, Karen Bass, Janice Hahn, Laura Richardson, Chaka Fattah, Jared Polis, Jerrold Nadler, Emmanuel Cleaver, Iran, Frederica Wilso, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Hank Johnson, Jr., Rosa DeLauro, David Cicilline, Elijah Cummings, Steve Cohen, Charles Rangel, Corrine Brown, Iran Sanctions, Michael Honda, Jesse Jackson, Bob Filner, Carolyn Maloney, Frank Pallone, William Clay, Jan Schakowsky, Peter Welch, Linda Sanchez, Marcy Kaptur, Peter DeFazio, Robert Brady, Mazie Hirono, David Loebsack, Louise Slaughter, World News

Never in the history of this country has Congress ever restricted the right of the White House or State Department to meet with representatives of a foreign state, even in wartime. If this measure passes, it will establish a dangerous precedent.

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House Democrats Tell States to Fight 'Disturbing Trend' Of Voting Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Democrats have penned a letter to the secretaries of state urging them to "put partisan considerations aside" and fight against th...

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Battleground North Carolina: Democratic Women Fired Up!

Michael Carmichael | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, David Koch, Tea Party, Chapel Hill, Richard Burr, Koch Brothers, Unc, Orange County Democratic Women, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, John Lewis, Hamilton, Molly Ivins, Harry Truman, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Mecklenburg County NC, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nino Scalia, Paul Wellstone, 2012, Republican, Battle of the South, Jefferson, Cesar Chavez, Bank of America, Gay Rights, Joan Dresser, Charlotte-North Carolina, Charlotte, Barbara Jordan, North Carolina, Palin-Bachmann, Abortion Rights, Citizens United, John Roberts, Wake County, Ellie Kinnaird, Tom Tillis, Donna Brazile, Jim Crow, Wall Street, Alice Bordsen, Charles Koch, North Carolina Democratic Women, Wake County School Board, Jimmy Carter, Gene Nichol, Renee Price, Lillian's List, David Price, Art Pope, Politics News

Recognizing that women's rights will take a devastating hit if Republicans return to power in 2012, Democratic women are rising to face the challenge.

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Remembering Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

AP | By JAY REEVES | Posted 12.06.2011

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth refused to back down despite huge risks, enduring arrests, beatings and injuries from fire hoses ai...

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A Dream Anew

Cory Booker | Posted 10.24.2011

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I am part of a generation that stands on the shoulders of giants from the modern civil rights movement. And now my generation is called to no less of an urgent state of affairs. The dream of our democracy -- advanced and protected by heroes past and present -- is still not yet achieved.

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Darkness at Noon: Georgia Dumps Peaches for Prisons With Immigration Law Today

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Jan Brewer, Prison, John Lewis, President Obama, Prison Lobby, Georgia, Immigrants, Arizona, Hb 87, Politics News

When Gov. Nathan Deal signed his state's punitive HB 87 immigration law at noon today, Georgia took Arizona's place on the nation's fast track to penal profiteering from immigration crackdowns.

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Dog Ears Music: Born in May Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Engelbert Humperdinck, Blind Willie McTell, Sonny Payne, Joey Ramone, Tammy Wynette, Don Rickles, Steve Winwood (Traffic), Kate Smith, John Lewis, Sid Vicious, Mary Lou Williams, Danielle Evin, Music, Max Steiner, mp3s, Randy Travis, Irving Berlin, Phil Ramone, Roberta Peters, Maynard Ferguson, Jimmy Ruffin, Rita Coolidge (With Kris Kristofferson), Ian McCulloch (Echo & the Bunnymen), Burt Bacharach, Dog Ears, Audrey Hepburn & Fred Astaire, Sidney Joseph Bechet (& Noble Sissle?S Swingsters), Entertainment News

This week, we feature music by Sid Vicious, Randy Travis, Audrey Hepburn & Fred Astaire, and more.

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People in Your County Are Going Hungry

Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 06.01.2011

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There is a disconnect in the public perception of hunger between people knowing that hunger exists in America, and understanding that hunger exists in their backyard.

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The Professors of Protest and the University of Revolution

John Jackson | Posted 05.30.2011

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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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Lawmakers Press Pentagon Official On Controversial MLK Statement

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A dozen Democratic lawmakers, including civil rights veteran Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), are taking issue with the way a senior Pentagon of...

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Lewis: A Civil Rights Icon Calls for Net Neutrality

James Rucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Lewis' presence on a new open letter validates that the fight to preserve an open Internet is deeply rooted in the historic struggle for fairness and equality in our society -- everything for which the Congressman has stood.

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WATCH: Rare Color Footage Of London Blitz Found

Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON (Associated Press) - Rare color footage of the bomb damage inflicted on London during World War II has surfaced on the eve of the 70th annivers...

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

Molly Secours | Posted 11.17.2011

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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

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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Sarah Palin's Flying Circus

Stu Kreisman | Posted 05.25.2011

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As shown in the Python sketch, it's impossible to have an intellectual discussion with anyone whose sole purpose is to undermine and demonize your beliefs or position.

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Congress Dedicates Plaques Acknowledging Slaves Who Helped Build Capitol

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — African-American slaves sweated in the summer heat and shivered in the winter's cold while helping to build the U.S. Capitol. Cong...

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Another Month, Another Breitbart Debacle

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Breitbart is overseeing yet another dubious campaign, claiming that the Tea Party movement is void of any racial animosity, and any suggestion to the contrary is a lie designed to smear the good patriots of the right-wing movement.

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