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Your Friday Random-Ass Roundup

J.D. Bell | Posted 11.30.2011 | Black Voices
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J.D. Bell

Welcome back for another installment of randomness. Feel free to offer your own reading suggestions in the comments.

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Jason Cherkis

Tea Party's Favorite Historian Claims Expertise In Black History

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 07.18.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- David Barton, the Republican establishment’s favorite amateur historian, claims in tax records reviewed by HuffPost to be something of...

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King's Early White Ally Still Fights For 'Beloved Community'

Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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By Kim Lawton Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly MONTGOMERY, Ala. (RNS) The social revolution led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was forged in and g...

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Man Pleads Guilty To Slaying That Sparked Selma March

AP | PHILLIP RAWLS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Civil Rights History, Murder, Marion, History, Alabama, Alabama State Trooper, Voting Rights Act, Crime, James Bonard Fowler, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Bloody Sunday, Selma March, Civil Rights, Politics News

MARION, Ala. — A former state trooper took a plea deal Monday in the 1965 slaying of a black man that prompted the "Bloody Sunday" march at Selm...

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