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Prisoner's Dilemma: Should a Chicago Alderman Relish His Opposition to Felony Franks?

Marilia Duffles | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Hot Dogs, Chicago, Slavery, Social Ills, Neurology, Rehabilitation, Frederick Douglass, Felony Franks, Jimmy Andrews, Chicago City Council, Barack Obama, Robert Fioretti, Felons, Chicago News
Marilia Duffles

Leave it to a Wall Street Journal story this week about a Chicago alderman's opposition to Jimmy Andrews' Felony Franks -- a hot dog joint that hires ...

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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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All Over the Country, Women in Politics Make a Difference

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Richard Riley, Al Gore, Mark Sanford, Hillary Clinton, Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Joe Wilson, Politics News
Madeleine M. Kunin

This is a diverse country, and getting elected in some states is much harder than in others, but the message has to continue to be the same -- women can and must make a difference.

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On the Occasion of President Obama's Wreath for the Confederate Memorial

Ronald Maxwell | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert E. Lee, Obama, Civil War, Memorial Day, Walt Whitman, Confederate Army, Ezekiel Moses, Frederick Douglass, Politics News
Ronald Maxwell

Obama, to his everlasting honor, and in keeping with the tradition of his predecessors, on Memorial Day just two weeks ago sent a wreath to Moses Ezekiel's monument to the Confederate dead.

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"Gay, or Straight, Black, or White: Love is Love, Right is Right!" Right?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil Liberties, Lesbian, George W. Bush, Gays and Lesbians, Harry-Belafonte, African-American History, Clarence Thomas, Civil Rights, Edna Thomas, Gay Rights, Walter Nagel, Tiger Woods, Racism, Frederick Douglass, African-American Issues, Jasmyne Cannick, Sammy Davis Jr., Phillip Johnson, Pearl Bailey, Olivia Whyndham, Michael Bloomberg, Walter-White, Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage, Lena Horne, Interacial Relationships, Interacial-Sex, Interracial Marriage, Jimmie Daniels, Gays in the Military, Seal, Martin Luther King, Jack Johnson, Homophobia, California Gay Marriage Ban, Bayard Rustin, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Sidney Poitier, Living News
Michael Henry Adams

Many activist gays have readily embraced the notion that "Queers" are "today's African Americans," with marriage equality an issue comparable to earlier more bitter struggles for civil rights.

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Lincoln's Other Legacy

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Birthday, Honest Abe, Frederick Douglass, Freedom, Lincoln Bicentennial, Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Racism, Chicago News
Hermene Hartman

Lincoln signed The Emancipation Proclamation and in so doing he saved the nation. But he also gave us the rationale for American racism.

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We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty Debate, Thomas Jefferson, Ebony Magazine, Reverend Joseph Lowery, A. Leon Higginbotham, African American, Black History Month, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Virginia, Martin Luther King, Cesare Beccaria, Slavery, On Crimes and Punishment, Abolition Democracy, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Death Penalty, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Abolitionists, Politics News
Diann Rust-Tierney

We Americans should honor abolitionists of the past and present not only by remembering them during Black History Month, but by working to repeal capital punishment throughout the USA.

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Brotherly Words To Obama...

Martin Lewis | Posted 03.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Mugwumpism, Economic Stimulus Package, President Obama, Bi-Partisanship by Democrats Is a One-Way Street, Martin Luther King, Stimulus Package, Decisive Leadership, Malcolm X, Humoring Conservatives, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency, Tear Down This Myth, Living News
Martin Lewis

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

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Pennsylvania Avenue: Take 2

Mary Lou Song | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Newseum, Purple Inauguration Tickets, Inauguration, Journalists, White House, Newspapers, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Donald Brasco, Timothy McVeigh, Washington DC, Media, Journalism, Tim Russert, Unabomber, Obama White House, Museums, Berlin Wall, Frederick Douglass, Twin Towers, Patty Hearst, Media News
Mary Lou Song

I almost had to remind myself to breathe inside the Newseum. There was Patty Hearst's gun and jacket. Donald Brasco's watch and Amex Card. A press pass to Timothy McVeigh's execution.

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Being in Black Face II

Judith Ellis | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Republican National Chairman, Black Face, Colin Powell, Frederick Douglass, Condoleezza Rice, Politics, Politics News
Judith Ellis

African American Republicans are not the issue with the selection of Michael Steele as the RNC chairman.

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Dear Grandma, A Change Has Come!

Adia Colar | Posted 02.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Change, United States, Barack Obama Inauguration, A Change Is Gonna Come, President Obama, Ancestors, Barack Obama, Sam Cooke, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Grandmother, Grandma, 9/11, September 11th, Civil Rights, Living News
Adia Colar

Grandma, We did it! We elected a black man President of the United States of America! Grandma, it's been a long time comin' but I know a change has come!

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A Breakthrough in the Presidency! (Now What?)

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lucy Burns, Grant, Kennedy, Woman Suffrage, Presidents, Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Race, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, Gender, Inez Milholland, Wilson, Polk, Human Rights, Politics News
John Tepper Marlin

If history is a guide, the breakthrough of having a non-white president should be helpful for the rights of women. Progress happens in spurts.

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Barack Obama and the Promise of Progress

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressives, Christian Progressives, Martin Luther King Jr., Progressive Movement, Race, Center for American Progress, Barack Obama, Religon and Progress, Religion, Sojourner Truth, Progress, Conservatives, W.E.B. Dubois, Social Conservative, Christian Conservatives, Sin, Racism, Religion and Politics, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

The progressive movement throughout the last century has enlisted political leaders, economists, educators, and clergy who strive to create a more equitable world, a task we believe is possible.

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An Open Letter to Frederick Douglass, Upon the Inauguration of President Obama

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: First Black President, Obama, Race, South, Frederick Douglass, Religious Right. Obama, Slavery, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Like millions of white Americans, I voted for our new black President, and I did so with confidence and enthusiasm, as I would have voted for a savior come to rescue our nation.

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What Obama Can Learn from Lincoln's Inaugural

John Stauffer | Posted 02.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Team of Rivals, Obama Inaugural Address, Lincoln Inauguration, Obama Presidency, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Obama Lincoln, Barack Obama, Politics News
John Stauffer

Why did Lincoln defend slavery so vigorously in his inaugural address, thus alienating abolitionists and progressives in his party?

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Yes We Can, Said Barack Obama, And We Did

Erik Ose | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, President Obama, Civil Rights Act, Battleground States, Election Day, General Election, Election Results, Presidential Campaign, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama 2008, Politics News, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, 2008, Early Voting, Martin Luther King Jr., Obama 2008, Election 2008, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Frederick Douglass, Voting, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Sarah Palin, Obama Presidency, Obama President, Election Analysis, John McCain, Obama Wins, Election Day 2008, Joe Biden, Election, Presidential Results, Presidential Election, Politics News
Erik Ose

Obama's victory does not spell the end of racial disparity in America, but it is a ringing sign of progress, a triumph on the road to greater equality and realizing the Dream that Martin Luther King, Jr. revealed to us.

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Obama Draws From The Wisdom of Frederick Douglass

Dan Kovalik | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Election, Peace, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, War, Struggle, Power, Politics News
Dan Kovalik

At a rally, Obama ended his speech with an allusion to a famous quote by Frederick Douglass: "Don't believe this election is over. Don't think for a minute that power will concede anything."

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Plain Food, Please

Amy Ephron | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Mt. Misery, Key Lime Cafe, John McCain, Creationism, The Inn at Perry Cabin, Soft-Shelled Crab, Maryland, Chesapeake Bay, Sara Palin, Donald Rumsfeld, Food, St Michael's, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, Choice, Living News
Amy Ephron

We'd walked past it a couple of times, a simple storefront set back from the street with a small porch, a glimpse of tables inside, unassuming. The Key Lime Cafe. Full at lunch-time, we assumed it was a Maryland version of a diner.

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Fox News Lincoln-Douglas Graphic Shows Frederick Douglass

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Video, Frederick Douglass, Fox News, Keith Olbermann, Fox Graphic, Fox Lincoln Douglas, Lincoln Douglas, Dan Abrams, Beat the Press, Verdict With Dan Abrams, Media News

Hillary Clinton grabbed some headlines this past weekend by challenging Barack Obama to a "Lincoln-Douglas style" debate. Of course, she was referenci...

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