African American Rights

Why I'm Running for President of the United States!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, African American Rights, President of the United States, Gay Rights, Mulan, Women's Suffrage, President Barack Obama, Congress, Rev Jesse Lee Peterson, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

Internationally, women have a long history of subjugation. America was always supposed to be the beacon for women's freedom. What has happened to our country?

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LGBT Rights Are Civil Rights

John Becker | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Gay Rights, Civil Rights, LGBT Rights, Third Way Gay Marriage, African-American Civil Rights, LGBT Civil Rights, Third Way, African-American Rights, Gay Voices News
John Becker

People on both sides -- pro-LGBT and anti-LGBT -- actively avoid equating gay rights with civil rights. This avoidance is dishonest, insulting, and demeaning to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of all racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. It must stop immediately.

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The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Alan Singer | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Latinos, Public Schools, Education, Rethinking Schools, Prison, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Race, 4th Amendment, African American Rights, Incarceration, Black Rights, Education News
Alan Singer

"We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of poor people are going to remain jobless, locked out of the mainstream economy, unless and until they have a quality education that prepares them well for the new economy."

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Nobel Peace Prize Controversies, Past And Present

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Russia, Jailed Chinese Dissident, Ussr, Martin Luther King Jr., Democracy, Nobel Peace Prize, Cold War, United Nations @Y:World, Democractic Nations, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize, Human Rights, African American Rights, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Adolf Hitler, Slidepollajax, Black Rights, Oslo, World News

Congratulations from across the world this morning, as the Nobel Committee announced the laureates of its Peaze Price in Oslo today. The Committee rew...

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Obama Featured On Chicago Anti-Abortion Billboards Targeting Black South Siders

Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Abortion, Life Always, South Side Chicago, Pro-Life Movement, Obama Abortion Billboard, Womens Rights, African American Rights, Abortion Rights, President Obama, Chicago Anti-Abortion Billboard, Civil Rights, Chicago News

An anti-abortion group behind a controversial New York billboard targeting African Americans is now taking its message to the South Side of Chicago, i...

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Nobel Peace Prize Controversies, Past And Present

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

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With jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and his family barred from accepting his Nobel Peace Prize at the Dec. 10 ceremony in Oslo, the Nobel Prize c...

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