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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, William Kunstler, Aclu, Civil Rights Law, American Civil Liberties Union, Civil Rights, Naacp, Sundance Film Festival, Bill Kunstler, Fbi, Entertainment News
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.

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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

Read More: Profiles-in-Cowardice, John McCain, Fear, Civil Rights Movement, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, President Obama, Filibuster-Proof Majority, Filibuster, President Johnson, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Lbj, Democratic Majority, Lyndon B. Johnson, Health Care Reform, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Health Care, Politics News
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...

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Remembering Jack Nelson

Murray Fromson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Selma, Otis Chandler, Chandler Family, Jack Nelson, Los Angeles, Civil Rights Movement, Watergate, Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, Media News
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.

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

William Bradley | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Martin Luther King, Conrad Hilton, Jon Hamm, Bryan Batt, Sal Romano, Birmingham Bombing, Roger Sterling, Matthew Weiner, Betty Draper, Advertising, John F. Kennedy, Don Draper, January Jones, John Slattery, Mad Men, Langston Hughes, I Have a Dream Speech, Civil Rights Movement, March on Washington, Entertainment News
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.

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

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Gay Rights, Dinner Speech, President Obama, Frederick Douglass, Gay Opposition to Obama, Doma, James Baldwin, Human Rights Campaign, Gay Marriage, Politics News
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.

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A Faith Declaration for Health Care Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Dialogue, Public Policy, Social Justice, Debate, Religious Beliefs, Misinformation, Dignity, Abolition, Religious, Biblical, Community, Health-Care Debate, Healing, Biblical Principles, Legislation, America, Civil Rights, Ten Commandments, Moral Values, Insurance Company, Abortion, Profits, Common Good, Principle, Civil Rights Movement, Faith Community, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Gospel, Health Care, Politics News
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.

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We Are the Obama Effect

Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Derrion Albert Beating, Derrion Albert, Birther-Movement, Emmett Till, Global Grind, Barack Obama Race, Race, Barack Obama, New York News
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.

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

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Nobodies, Civil Rights Movement, Dignitarian, Dignity, Sexism, Racism, Women's Movement, Barbarah Ehrenreich, Rank, Somebodies, Rankism, Living News
Robert Fuller

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

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
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.

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

Keli Goff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Racists, South Carolina, Racist, Joe Wilson, Civil Rights Movement, Barack Obama, Politics News
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.

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Tempests in a Tea Party

Jim Selman | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Taxes, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Free Speech, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Media Hype, Tea Party, 9/12 Tea Party March, Media News
Jim Selman

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

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Leo

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Latinos, Manhattan, 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, Memorials, Leo Orris, Cuban Missile Crisis, New York City, Obituaries, Havana, Cuba, New York News
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.

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

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Smith-Act, Civil Rights Movement, National Lawyers Guild, Communist Party, House Un-American Activities Committee, Mccarthyism, Angela Davis, J.K.Rowling, Politics News
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.

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

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: 1960s, Bill Clinton, Barry Lewis, Civil Rights Movement, Baby Boomers, Ronald Reagan, Andrew Sullivan, George W. Bush, Led Zeppelin, Generation X, Iraq, Cadillac, Wall Street Journal, Woodstock Museum, Janis Joplin, Gay Rights, Times Herald-Record, The Atlantic, Jimmy Carter, Woodstock, Exurbs, Jimi Hendrix, Bethel, Women's Liberation, Milennials, Taking Woodstock, Living News
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.

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The Woodstock Consensus

Rex Weiner | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, The Sixties, Sixties Culture, Activists, Woodstock, Woodstock Consensus, Civil Rights, Politics News
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?

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

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Systemic Racism, Teachable Moment, Gates, Black Bigotry, President Obama, Issues of Race, Race Relations, Obama, James Crowley, Mud Fight, Racist, Converations on Race, Racists, Noel Cazenave, Liberals, Sgt. Crowley, Crowley, Boston Police, Rush Limbaugh, Politics, Bigotry, Lou Dobbs, Gate and Obama, Racism, Race, Racial Bigotry, Racial Profiling, Civil Rights Movement, Sociology, Police, White Racism, Glenn Beck, Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Conservatives, Officer Barrett, Uconn, University of Connecticut, Obama Crowley Gates Beer, Sgt. James Crowley, Obama Beer, Politics News
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.

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A Defining Moment in the History of Civil Rights

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disorderly Conduct, African-American Studies, Civil Rights Movement, Harvard University, Reggie Lewis, Sgt. James Crowley, President Barack Obama, The Boston Globe, Harvard Police, Cambridge Massachusetts, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, The White House, Politics News
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...

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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

Read More: Emmett Till, Emmett Till Grave, Emmett Till Casket, Emmett Till Burr Oak, Burr Oak Cemetery, Civil Rights Movement, Ollie Gordon, Chicago News

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...

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

AP | Posted 08.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Dempsey Travis, Dempsey Travis Dies, Dempsey Travis Obituary, Civil Rights Movement, Video, Harold Washington, Chicago News

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 ...

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

Michael DeJong | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Queer, Gay-Rights-Movement, Patriarchal, Homogeneity, Enough Is Enough, Stonewall Bar, Queer People of Color, 40th Anniversary, The Closet, New York City’s “Finest”, Homosexuality, Common Cause, Dr. King, Progressive, Transgender, Cross-Dressing, Women’s Rights Movement, Us Department of Justice, Feminist Movement, Federal Hate Crimes Bill, The Mattachine Society, American Psychiatric Association, Daughters of Belitis, Stonewall, Gay Human Rights, Living News
Michael DeJong

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

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2009 Gary Roosevelt High School Commencement Address

Robert D. Patterson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Gary Roosevelt High School, Civil Rights Movement, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Rush Limbaugh, Jim Crow Laws, Affirmativ Action, Robert D Patterson Md, Commencement Speech, Gary Roosevelt Commencement Speech, Glen Beck, Robert F. Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Gary Indiana, Sean Hannity, Vietnam War, Malcolm X, Racism, Discrimination, Obama Election Night, Politics News
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.

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

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Counterculture, Civil Rights Movement, The 70s, The 60s, Vietnam, The 80s, Mccarthyism, The 50s, Eisenhower Era, Entertainment News
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.

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Going to the Mat: Confessions of a Yoga Guinea Pig

Nicholas Rosen | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil-Rights-Movement, Yoga, Corner Bistro, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Bistro Burger, Civil Rights Movmement, Bollywood, Kanye-West, Cross-Legged Headstands, Enlighten Up!, Stretching, Martin-Luther-King, Breathing, Meditative Breathing, Human Sacrafice, Chanting, Pranayama Breathing, Kanye West, Xiphoid Process, Yogi, Non-Attachment, Westernized Yoga, Universal Love, Meditation, Core-Strengthening, Yogis, Living News
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.

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Did John Hope Franklin Want $100 Trillion for Blacks?

Bakari Kitwana | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Poverty, John Franklin, Black Reparations, John-Hope-Franklin, Reparations, Jim Crow, Black Poverty, African-American-Reparations, Stimulus Package, John Hope Franklin, Slavery, Civil-Rights-Moevment, American Slaves, African American Reparations, Reparations for Blacks, African-American Reparations, African American Poverty, Politics News
Bakari Kitwana

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

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Dream Big Dreams -- a Song for the Ages

Rondi Charleston | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ambition, Vietnam War Protests, Oliver Sacks, Dreams, President Obama, Rondi Charleston, Amazing Grace, Obama "Dreams of My Father", Inspiration, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, Hyde Park, Musicophilia, Politics News
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.

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