Civil Rights Movement

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment


Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler

At home, Dad spoke of the racism he saw every day in the courtroom. Civil rights leaders, he told us, where only honored when they were safely dead.

Dem Leaders in 1965: "Filibuster Threat Is Too Daunting -- So Let's Just Drop This Civil Rights Crap"

Martin Lewis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


Martin Lewis

It's March 16, 1965. We have a Democratic President. We have large Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate. It's long been part of the progressive and liberal platform...

Remembering Jack Nelson

Murray Fromson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media


Murray Fromson

On March 7, 1965, Jack and I met for the first time, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama, he reporting for the Times and I for CBS News.

Mad Men: "Wee Small Hours" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment


William Bradley

Listening to Martin Luther King on the murder of four girls in a Birmingham church, Betty opines that maybe this civil rights thing is premature. But Betty should know that a dream deferred can dry up like a raisin in sun.

Obama Is Gays' Best Friend -- To Say Otherwise is Shortsighted, Insulting and Just Plain Dumb

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Nothing short of a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage will cease the carping of the hard core gay rights advocates against Obama.

A Faith Declaration for Health Care Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

There is no one "right" religious position on how health care should look; but I believe there are some fundamental moral and even biblical principles on which to evaluate any final legislative agreement.

We Are the Obama Effect

Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York


Sara Haile-Mariam

Derrion Albert's death should resonate from coast to coast, because his early departure represents a lost opportunity; a life that could have given back has been taken.

How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re: The Dignity Movement against Rankism)

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living


Robert Fuller

We won't be able to confront rankism until we overcome our fear of seeming uppity by using the word in public.

Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

Why I'm Grateful for Joe Wilson and the Fury of Racists

Keli Goff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Keli Goff

Some people's racism has been brought to the fore because the America they thought they knew is changing to an America in which a Black man can get elected president and their very own children applaud.

Tempests in a Tea Party

Jim Selman | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media


Jim Selman

They are a few thousand hard-core individuals intent on destroying possibility and undermining the man that a majority of Americans elected.

Leo

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York


Margarita Alarcon

For years Dr. Leo Orris and his family would be our sanctuary, our conversations, our endless nights of discussions where themes would range from the history of SDS and SNICC to how to end the Vietnam War.

Legendary Lawyer Doris Brin Walker Dies; Represented Angela Davis, Smith Act Defendants

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Marjorie Cohn

The only woman in her University of California Berkeley law school class, Doris defied the odds throughout her life, achieving significant victories for labor, and political activists.

Why Can't the Boomers Just Shut Up About Woodstock?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living


Nathan Hegedus

Unless you were backing up Janis Joplin in a secret jam session, or at least at, you know, actually at Woodstock, please, shut up.

The Woodstock Consensus

Rex Weiner | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics


Rex Weiner

Forty years after the summer of '69, isn't it time we face the truth that the ideals of the Woodstock Generation -- ideals once widely mocked and officially repressed -- have pretty much won the day?

White Racism Black Bigotry: The Talk About Race is All Wrong!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Yvonne R. Davis

The problem with discussing "issues of race," is that it dummies down the issue of racism to an individual level, when the real problem is at the macro level.

A Defining Moment in the History of Civil Rights

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics


Gary S. Chafetz

Who are the beneficiaries of what appears to be the teapot tempest over the recent arrest of an African-American man in The People's Republic of Cambr...

Emmett Till's Old Casket Moved From Burr Oak As Civil Rights Icon Is Catalyst Once Again

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO — When his mother put the battered body of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the ground more than 50 years ago, it was supposed to be the end o...

Dempsey Travis, Pioneering African American Businessman And Civil Rights Activist, Dies At 89 (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 08.03.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO (AP) -- Dempsey Travis, a stockyards worker's son who rose to become a real estate magnate, civil rights activist and jazz musician, has died ...

40 Years Old and All I Get is This Damn Rainbow Flag?

Michael DeJong | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living


Michael DeJong

The modern "Gay Rights Movement" has had and still has racism, classism, misogyny, ageism, and trans-phobia at its core.

2009 Gary Roosevelt High School Commencement Address

Robert D. Patterson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


Robert D. Patterson

I really wanted to help them understand that despite the positive changes in the current political landscape, they will need to be prepared for the inevitable backlash.

Revenge of Gen-X: What Movies About the 80s Mean

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

In case you needed proof that Hollywood is dominated by and aimed at people in their 30s and early 40s, look at all the movies about the 1980s currently on screens.

Going to the Mat: Confessions of a Yoga Guinea Pig

Nicholas Rosen | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living


Nicholas Rosen

The stretching and breathing, when coupled with a meditative, focused intention, can make you feel pretty damn good, even if the whole thing is choreographed to a Kanye West track.

Did John Hope Franklin Want $100 Trillion for Blacks?

Bakari Kitwana | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics


Bakari Kitwana

Dr. John Hope Franklin, the wildly accomplished historian who documented Blacks' place in the great American story, firmly believed in reparations.

Dream Big Dreams -- a Song for the Ages

Rondi Charleston | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics


Rondi Charleston

While no one yet knows what impact the Obama presidency will have on the world, it is important that we put our bodies, minds and spirits to work to help make this administration a success.