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Voice To Voice: Laverne Cox And M. Lamar On Identity, Celebrating The Black Penis And More

Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: M Lamar, Lgbt, Voice to Voice, Reality TV, Laverne Cox, Transgender, Lynching, Slavery, Gay, Music, Film, Black History Month, Gay Voices News

Last month we kicked off our Voice To Voice conversation series with a collection of interviews between LGBT authors discussing queer topics and issue...

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Until We Have Faces: Stories of Violent Homophobia In Paradise

Ryan J. Bell | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Leslie Foster, Jamaica, Lynching, Until We Have Faces, Homophobia, James Cone, Film, Impact News
Ryan J. Bell

To be openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender in Jamaica is to take your life in your hands. I had no idea about this reality until I spoke to Leslie Foster, director of a documentary about violent homophobia in Jamaica.

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Protester Arrest At Los Angeles Art Walk

Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Police Force, Video, Lynching, Occupy Protesters, Los Angeles Police Department, Occupy Wall Street, Los Angeles Art Walk, Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Protests, Sergio Ballesteros, Lapd, Arts News

Los Angeles' bi-weekly art walk recently got a taste of the confrontations between Occupy protesters and the LAPD. The video above begins in the m...

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As Herman Cain Fights Sex Harassment Story, This Black Man Pleads: Enough With the Lynching Talk!

Eric Deggans | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Politics, Lynching, Ann Coulter, Sexual Harassment, Herman Cain, Gop, Media, Race, GOP Candidates, L-Brent-Bozell, Herman Cain 2012, Black Voices News
Eric Deggans

Coming from someone who has regularly accused liberals of alleging racism to silence critics of Barack Obama, it was a particularly cheeky turn of phrase. But, as always, Ann Coulter is willing to go there.

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Killing to Govern

Jared Gardner | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Capital Punishment, Eugene Talmadge, Race, Lynching, Rick Perry, Troy Davis, New York News
Jared Gardner

We know the statistics because they are so very proud of them: Rick Perry, governor of Texas, has overseen more than 230 executions, the most of any g...

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The 'Lynching' Of Troy Davis And White Christianity

Alexander Mikulich, Ph.D. | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Troy Davis, Christianity, Christian Theology, Lynching, Racism in America, Race in America, Institutional Racism, Death Penalty Debate, Troy Davis Execution, Death Penalty and Race, Christianity in America, Death Penalty, Ethics, Religion News
Alexander Mikulich, Ph.D.

It is time to contend with our complicity in the enduring legacy of lynching in the contemporary practice of the death penalty. It contradicts our claims of being Christian and democratic.

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Friday Talking Points -- Labor Daze

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Polls, Tea Party, President Obama, Speech, Keith Ellison, Obama, Democratic, Republican, Holiday, Workmans Comp, Progressive Caucus, Regulations, Unemployment, Workers Comp, Labor Day, Midotw, Work Day, Grijalva, Union, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Andre Carson, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Overtime, Work Week, Weekend, Child Labor, Raul Grijalva, Ellison, Carson, Labor, Democrat, Congress, Democrats, Osha, Barack Obama, Paid Holiday, Epa, Jim Crow, Mddotw, Lynching, Obama Speech, Friday Talking Points, Politics News
Chris Weigant

It surpasses all irony and actually enters into the realm of bitter humor that we're about to celebrate Labor Day when the unemployment rate remains at the sky-high level of 9.1 percent.

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When Democratic Rhetoric Goes Too Far

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Lynching, Andre Carson, Andre Carson Lynching, Andre Carson Racism, Tea Party Racist, Tea Party Racism, Andre Carson Tea Party, Tea Party Lynching, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The history of lynching should not be abused and belittled by politicians in hyperbolic fashion to make a much smaller point. Even if, or perhaps especially if, the politician in question is black.

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Death in Mississippi: Lynching or Suicide?

Dexter Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: USA Today, Tea Party, President Obama, Racism, Suicide, Emmett Till, Death, Frederick Jermaine Carter, Mississippi, Eric Holder, Civil Rights, Lynching, Media News
Dexter Rogers

Slice the pie as you choose but an African-American hanging from a tree in Mississippi is a big deal. So, I humbly ask again, where is the media coverage?

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Black History Meditation: Remembering The Presence Of Our Ancestors

Albert Raboteau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Slave Trade, American History, Lynching, Remembrance, Slavery, Black History, Racism, Race, African Americans, Diversity, Black History Month, Religion News
Albert Raboteau

Our nation, constituted by diverse ethnic, racial, and religious groups achieves a unified identity, not only through a set of shared principles articulated in civic institutions, but through memory.

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Missouri Corrects Record On 1923 College-Town Lynching

AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patrick Huber, University of Missouri, James T. Scott, Columbia Lynching, Lynching, Scott Wilson, Missouri Lynching, College News

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Hundreds looked on as an angry mob dragged a black University of Missouri janitor from his jail cell in April 1923, publicly lyn...

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Notes From an Israeli Newsroom: The Day My Leftism Changed

Ami Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinians, Israel, Ramallah, Lynching, World News
Ami Kaufman

Ten years ago today my leftism changed. I remember the images shown over and over again on television. The body being thrown out the window, and then being stomped on. And of course the bloody hands.

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LeBron James Suggests 'Race' Played a Role in His Negative Press: Is He Right?

Dexter Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miami Heat, Cnn, Espn, Racism, Media, Iq-Scores, Rachel Nichols, LeBron James, Sports, Lynching, Brett Favre, Lance Armstrong, African Americans, Civil Rights, Sports News
Dexter Rogers

Racism is a disease that surely needs to be properly diagnosed yet so many are afraid to engage in pursuing a collective cure.

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Recovering from Empathy

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global War on Terror, Wikileaks Video, Media, Empathy, Iraq, Lynching, Afghanistan, Politics News
Robert Koehler

What I thought of, straight off, as I watched that 17-minute WikiLeaks video of Iraqis - including a Reuters photographer and his driver - being stra...

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No Noose is Good Noose

Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racism, Women's Rights, Civil Rights, Tea Parties, Polls, Lynching, Politics News
Bob Franken

It happened decades ago but it remains one of my favorite moments on television ever. The guests on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson were the yo...

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Israel, Gaza and the 'Lynching' of Morality

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Politics, Gaza, Lynching, Foreign Affairs, Gaza Flotilla, Morality, Israel, Free Gaza Movement, Foreign Policy, Gaza Blockade, Haaretz, Human Rights, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza-Freedom-Flotilla, Politics News
Seth Freed Wessler

It's clear that outside of the U.S., at least, shifting rhetorical blame to the slain activists won't be enough to tamp down outrage. So Defense Minister Ehud Barak is emerging as the likely target for a secondary source of blame.

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Why Didn't Rand Paul Fire His Racially Suspect Mouthpiece?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Rights Act of 1964, Gop, N-Word, Rand Paul, Race, Tea Party, Myspace, Lynching, Chris-Hightower, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The news hit last December that there was a racially inflammatory picture of the lynching of a black man next to a smiling cherubic picture of three y...

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Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ronald B. Robinson

The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

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Lynching Reference on Cover of New Orleans Music Magazine Brings Anger and Outrage

Jordan Flaherty | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strange Fruit, New Orleans, Racial Politics, Offbeat Magazine, Racism, Billie Holiday, Lynching, Politics News
Jordan Flaherty

OffBeat Magazine is a monthly print publication based in New Orleans. They claim a circulation of 40,000, mostly through free distribution in bars, st...

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Breakfast in Ocilla

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South, Lynching, Race Relations, Georgia, Obama State of the Union, Race, Greensboro North Carolina, Ocilla Georgia, Chicago News
Michael Jones

I was in my father's hometown of Ocilla over the weekend. A small town in Georgia, the site of a horrendous lynching in the thirties, and, when I was a child, a totally segregated society.

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I Live In The Land Of You, Me And We

Matthew Modine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matthew Modine, Rush Limbaugh, Lynching, We the People, Rush Limbaugh Obama, U.S. Constitution, Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird, Impact News
Matthew Modine

The first three words of the Constitution say, "We the People." "We" is a lovely word; it is inclusive. Life forms and nature are a delicate dance of symbiotic relationships. Some people understand that there is only one world and we are all in this together.

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Governor Rick Perry and His Texas Death Machine Are In Big Trouble

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dna, George Bush, Capital Punishment, Execution, Cameron Todd Willingham, Crime, Rick Perry Secession, George W. Bush, Criminal Justice, Rick Perry, Texas, Jim Crow, New Yorker, Prison, Lynching, Forensic Science, Criminal Justice System, Death Penalty, Craig Beyler, Sharon Keller, Politics News
David A. Love

Cameron Todd Willingham is now a free man, but unfortunately it took death to release him from the confines of his prison bars.

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Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Gates, President Obama, Obama, The Nation, Race, Institutionalized Racism, Obama Town Hall Meetings, Officer Crowley, Town Hall, White Privilege, Racism, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry Louis Gates Arrested, African-Americans, Privilege, Health Care, African Americans, Whites, Leonard Zeskind, Pat Buchanan, Barack Obama, Driving While Black, White Nationalism, Lynching, People of Color, Sarah Palin, Sonia Sotomayor, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Erik Ward, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Inequality, Town Hall Meetings, Eric Alterman, Healthcare, Class, Politics News
Abby L. Ferber

Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.

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Two by Earth, Three by Fire: Detroit Revisited

Lester Sloan | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michigan State, Ford, Walter Reuther, Gran Torino, Anderson Cooper, Detroit Riot, Hybrid Cars, Woodward Avenue, Red Wings, Jim Crow, Eastern Market, Final Four, Lynching, River Rouge, White Flight, Stanley Cup, United Auto Workers Union, Detroit Institute of Art, Arson, Fred Astaire, Devil's Night, Motown, Detroit, Greek Town, St.Lawrence Seaway, Chrysler, Pall Mall, Great Migration, Detroit-Michigan, Healthy Living News
Lester Sloan

Ironically, it is still Detroit that gives the suburbs a sense of place and America a reason to hope.

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Do McCain and Palin Want Race Riots?

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Lynching, Violence, Racism, Assassination, Race, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jeff Dorchen

I expect this kind of garbage from Limbaugh and Savage and Malkin. It's their job to spew evil. But the responsibilities of a public servant are to keep his activities within bounds that don't threaten the civil safety.

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