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Time for New Black Leaders

Kevin Powell | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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I acknowledge what the Civil Righters have done, but younger African Americans are saying now, the jig is up and it is time for you to go, especially if you have not created hope for our communities.

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Jesse Helms' Shameful Legacy Can't Be Whitewashed

Erik Ose | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

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No amount of whitewashing Helms' legacy can erase the stain of his reliance on hate-filled, divisive politics, or the hurt he caused so many people in the process.

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Can a Civil Rights/Feminist Presidential Union Put John Edwards on the Supreme Court?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Civil Rights Movement, Democratic Nomination, Ku Klux Klan, Voting Rights, Antonin Scalia, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Feminism, Civil Rights, Politics News

The word is consensus. It is hard to achieve. But then it's even harder to beat.

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Clinton Compares FL/MI Fight To Civil Rights, Suffragists, Bush V. Gore, Zimbabwe

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Hillary Clinton is making a full-court, last-ditch effort to seat the delegates from Michigan and Florida at the Democratic convention. Campaign...

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40 Years Ago Today, The Police Tried to Kill Me At Columbia University

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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The real legacy of the 1968 turmoil was the idea that young people and students had the obligation to challenge authority, to question assumptions... and could succeed.

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40 Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced

Jeff Cohen | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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In 1967 and '68, mainstream media saw Rev. Martin Luther King a bit like they now see Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

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Bucking the Conventional Wisdom: Why I Am Voting for Barack Obama, and Why I Bet on the New York Giants

Warren Goldstein | Posted 02.04.2008 | Home

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Forty-eight years ago, on the playground of Crown Elementary School, in Coronado, California, I knew that Richard Nixon should be the next President o...

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Tom Brokaw Does 1968 (Poorly)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics

At least in 1968 young people could dream of a better planet and a better future. Brokaw comes down on the side of the stern father shaming those unruly children for their "excesses."

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