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Bradley Manning: Guilty of 'Aiding the Enemy' if the Enemy Is Democracy

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.05.2013 | Politics
Read More: Matt Taibbi, Wallace Shawn, Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Dechristopher, Moby, Tom Morello, Oliver Stone, Amy Davidson, Josh Stieber, Phil Donahue, Daniel Ellsberg, Nobel Peace Prize, Bradley Manning, Lt. Dan Choi, Leslie Cagan, Russell Brand, Davey D, Bob Woodward, Ahdaf Soueif, Allan Nairn, Chris Hedges, Glenn Greenwald, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Ratner, Al-Qaeda, Alice Walker, Molly Crabapple, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Top Secret, Jeff Madrick, Hakim Green, Politics News
Norman Solomon

When the deceptive operation of the warfare state can't stand the light of day, truth-tellers are a constant hazard. And culpability must stay turned on its head.

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Beauty In Truth: Alice Walker, Citizen of the World

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 06.02.2013 | Arts
Read More: Alice Walker, Alice Walker Movie, Alice Walker Documentary, Beauty-in-Truth, Arts News
E. Nina Rothe

In Beauty In Truth, Parmar tells Walker's story by letting her narrate her own tale, in that beautiful trademark voice of hers, a woman who has lived through so much but still looks at life with enthusiasm and generosity.

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Legendary Author Begs Alicia Keys To Cancel Concert

www.essence.com | Posted 06.02.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Alicia Keys, Alice Walker, Black Voices News

Author Alice Walker wrote an open letter to Alicia Keys urging her to cancel her upcoming concert in Isreal. Keys, who is currently on her "Set The...

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Influential Women Share Advice on Staying Calm and Centered in Hectic Times

Marianne Schnall | Posted 05.09.2013 | Women
Read More: Meditation, Religion, Unplug and Recharge, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Melissa Etheridge, Maria Ebrahimij, Rabbi Jill Hammer, Materialism, Courtney E. Martin, Gloria Steinem, Chung Hyun Kyung, Jane Fonda, Joan Halfax Roshi, Gabrielle Bernstein, Kerry Washington, Sister Joan Chittister, Alice Walker, Staying Centered, Elizabeth Lesser, Women News
Marianne Schnall

In our materialistic society, our quality of life tends to be measured by what we have and produce in the outside world, rather than the experience of our inner world -- our sense of peace, fulfillment and joy.

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Rules of One's Own

Judith Greenberg, Ph.D. | Posted 05.14.2013 | Women
Read More: Lean In, The Rules, Virginia Woolf, Sheryl Sandberg, Feminism, Women and Writing, A Room of One's Own, Nora Ephron, Alice Walker, Backlash, Susan Faludi, Shakespeare's Sister, Passover Seder, Passover, Women News
Judith Greenberg, Ph.D.

Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean-In hits bookstores this week, promising women the wisdom to command more authority and success in the workplace. I'm intrigued.

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Banning Books Is Censorship

Jane Friedman | Posted 12.01.2012 | Books
Read More: Banned, Hubert Selby Jr, William Styron, Banned Books, James Jones, Banned Books Week, Pearl Buck, Alice Walker, Jean Craighead George, Bette Greene, Censorship, Books News
Jane Friedman

Let's celebrate Banned Books Week by reading many of these books that have been unfairly censored.

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Waving the White Flag

Annie Leonard | Posted 11.25.2012 | Politics
Read More: Voting Rights Act of 1965, Martin Luther King, Eric Liu, Voting Rights, The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard, Alice Walker, Whoopi Goldberg, Voting, Politics News
Annie Leonard

"My vote can't make a difference. All politicians are the same. Sitting it out is better than voting for the lesser of two evils." No, no and no. Think about it.

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Food for (Literary) Thought on Julia Child's Birthday

Dave Astor | Posted 10.15.2012 | Books
Read More: J.K. Rowling, Vegetarian, Darryl Brock, L.M. Montgomery, Charles Dickens, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Atwood, Honore De Balzac, Suzanne Collins, Julia Child, Novels, Food, Emile Zola, Alice Walker, Harry Potter, Joanne Harris, The Hunger Games, T.C. Boyle, Jeffrey Eugenides, Monty Python, Julia Child Birthday, Julia Child's Birthday, Books News
Dave Astor

With Aug. 15 being the 100th anniversary of Julia Child's birth, I figured a post about food in novels might be appropriate.

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Blessings Triumph Over Curses In Israel

Rabbi Edward Bernstein | Posted 09.04.2012 | Religion
Read More: Dr. Itzhak Haviv, Israel, Alice Walker, Dr. Hanna Alonim, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Judaism, Peace, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Religion News
Rabbi Edward Bernstein

I believe that in due time more and more people will defy the naysayers and say Mah tovu ohalekha Yaakov, how good are your tents, O Jacob, your dwelling places, O Israel.

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Dr. Stein's "Political Medicine"

Colleen Becker | Posted 08.27.2012 | Politics
Read More: Thomas Frank, Jill Stein, Third Party, Ted Strickland, 2012 Presidential Election, President Obama, Alice Walker, Occupy Wall Street, Green Party, US Elections, Occupy Movement, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Politics News
Colleen Becker

Practicing what she calls "political medicine," Stein encourages her natural allies to heal themselves from a "sadomasochistic relationship to corporate politics" by acknowledging their agency.

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Alice Walker Won't Allow Hebrew Translation Of 'Color Purple'

Posted 06.19.2012 | Books
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Video, Alice Walker Color Purple, The Color Purple, Color Purple Hebrew, Alice Walker Protest, Alice Walker, Israel, Alice Walker Israel, Alice Walker Palestinians, Books News

Alice Walker is protesting Israel's treatment of the Palestinians by refusing permission for an Israeli publisher to translate her most famous book, "...

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Reflections On Aging: Melissa Etheridge, Goldie Hawn, Alice Walker And Others

Marianne Schnall | Posted 08.04.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Melissa Etheridge, Women, Aging, Jane-Goodall, Slideexpand, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Alice Walker, Elizabeth Lesser, Pat Mitchell, Madeleine Albright, Fifty News
Marianne Schnall

"It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were 6 1/2 and saying, 'I'm 6 1/2.' We could be saying, 'I'm 50 1/2' and say it with joy." -Gloria Steinem

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Remembering Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple

Sheril Antonio | Posted 05.15.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: African American Film, The Color Purple, Alice Walker, Black Actors, Steven Spielberg, Entertainment News
Sheril Antonio

While I am not usually nostalgic about the past, nor am I prone to "the-good-old-days" talk there is something important about The Color Purple and the decades that would follow its release.

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Reflections on Occupy Wall Street From Nancy Pelosi, Alice Walker, Arianna Huffington & Others

Marianne Schnall | Posted 03.06.2012 | Politics
Read More: Deepak Chopra, Gloria Steinem, Sheryl Sandberg, Marianne Williamson, Alice Walker, Arianna Huffington, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News
Marianne Schnall

The frustration people are feeling over the lack of jobs and the economic crisis, the glaring inequities of the 1%, the corruption of the banks, and our dysfunctional political system, has awakened us from our apathy.

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New E-Book Club Includes Works By Alice Walker

AP | Posted 12.07.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Alice Walker, Black Voices News

NEW YORK -- A digital publisher of Pat Conroy, Alice Walker and other writers has formed an online book club with a website that has for years served ...

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Famous Authors Related by Blood or Marriage

Dave Astor | Posted 10.21.2011 | Books
Read More: Daphne Du Maurier, Stephen King, Svengali, John Cheever, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Twilight Zone, Joan Didion, Jane Eyre, George Du Maurier, Famous Authors, Angela's Ashes, Bronte Sisters, Wuthering Heights, Frank Mccourt, Alice Walker, Alexandre Dumas, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling, Books News
Dave Astor

The Bronte sisters weren't alone in blood being as thick as ink.

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11 Notable HBCU Alumni

Posted 10.04.2011 | College
Read More: Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sean Combs, Wanda Sykes, Taraji P. Henson, Keisha-Knight-Pulliam, Erykah Badu, Herman Cain, Spike Lee, Alice Walker, Slidepollajax, College News

Did you know that P. Diddy interned at Uptown records while he was at Howard University? Or that Oprah got her start in broadcasting while at Tennesse...

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Glen Park

Louise Nayer | Posted 09.27.2011 | San Francisco
Read More: Noe Valley, San Francisco, Dogs, Glen Park, Dog Parks, Alice Walker, San Francisco News
Louise Nayer

My dog Penny, an almost 14-year-old Bichon Frise, and I walk on the sidewalk bordering one entrance to the park. I think of all the dog-friendly Glen Park places.

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He Gets It, But He Still Doesn't Get It: Reading Ethan Bronner in Athens

Robert Naiman | Posted 09.07.2011 | World
Read More: Gaza, Ethan Bronner, The Audacity of Hope, New York Times, Israel, Palestinians, Alice Walker, Gaza-Freedom-Flotilla, World News
Robert Naiman

Bronner's piece is a tragic performance in the gap between the understanding that it grasps and the understanding that it manages to hold.

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Be the Change: Inspiration and Advice from Activists and Celebrities

Marianne Schnall | Posted 09.07.2011 | Women
Read More: Natalie Portman, Activism, Advocacy, Gloria Steinem, Gandhi, Alice Walker, Margaret Mead, Melissa Etheridge, Eve Ensler, Women News
Marianne Schnall

Media and society in general no longer inspire us or appeal to our own individual power to improve the world. In fact, we have been conditioned to leave that messy business to our elected officials. But it doesn't have to be this way.

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Alice Walker: Israel And America Are Terrorist States

Foreign Policy | Posted 08.24.2011 | Books
Read More: The Color Purple, Gaza Strip, America, Alice Walker Interview, Terrorism, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Terrorist States, Alice Walker, Israel, Books News

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker will join the flotilla of ships next week that will try to break Israel's maritime blockade of the Gaza Str...

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'Womanist': Saying Who We Are

Irene Monroe | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Women's Issues, Feminist, Gays and Lesbians, Gay, Third Wave Feminism, Womanist, African-American History, Alice Walker, Feminism, African American Women, Black History Month, Second Wave Feminism, Gay Rights, Blacks, Black History, African-Americans, African Americans, Gay Issues, African-American Issues, Healthy Living News
Irene Monroe

Black History Month is that time of year when the achievements and courage of people of African descent are acknowledged and celebrated.

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American Woman: 15 Trailblazers Vogue Left Off Their List

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 11.28.2012 | Style
Read More: Style News, Vogue, Zora Neale Hurston, Feminist, Billie Jean King, Gloria Steinem, Katharine Hepburn, Brooke Astor, Met Gala, Lee Miller, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Toni Morrison, Carol Burnett, Katie Roiphe, Donna Karan, American Woman, Ella Fitzgerald, Lesley M. M. Blume, Fashion, Slidepollajax, Georgia O'Keefe, Diana Vreeland, Annie Oakley, Alice Walker, Feminism, Costume Institute Gala, Dorothy Parker, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Style, American Women, Tina Fey, Anna Wintour, Lucille Ball, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

At this time of year, for those in the fashion industry, "going to the Met" has nothing to do with spending a lazy day in the galleries, admiring Byza...

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'The Color Purple' Author Alice Walker Didn't Want To Be At Pulitzer Ceremony

NBC New York | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: The Color Purple, Authors, Literary Prizes, Alice Walker, Books, Fiction Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Books News

"The Color Purple" author Alice Walker, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for her highly acclaimed novel, said last night she didn't want to pick up ...

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Burton's Alice in Wonderland Walks in the Footprints of Five Women Named Alice

Leslie Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Alice in Wonderland, Johnn Depp, Women's Suffrage, Film, Film Review, Entertainment, Blockbuster, 3-D Movies, Alice Walker, Women's History Month, Tim Burton, Entertainment News
Leslie Grossman

It's exciting to see a girl portrayed in all her femininity, show courage and chutzpa, and has as the Mad Hatter calls it -- muchness.

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