HuffPost Review: Prom Night in Mississippi
Morgan Freeman attempts to coax a revolution in his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi, where the local high school still has segregated proms.
Morgan Freeman attempts to coax a revolution in his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi, where the local high school still has segregated proms.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Republican National Chair Michael Steele sure has a way of ingratiating himself with black voters.
Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
Partisanship and political philosophy aside, I can think of few things more irresponsible in this economy than the governor of Texas speaking freely about secession.
AP | PHILLIP RAWLS | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Alabama first lady Cornelia Wallace, who threw herself over Gov. George C. Wallace when he was shot in a 1972 assassin...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment
George Clooney has spoken out to E!'s Ted Casablancas about the passage of Proposition 8, banning gay marriage in California: "At some point in our li...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
I started blogging over two years ago. That is to say, right about the time the 2008 presidential campaign began. OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration...
Charles J. Brown | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
The Palinistas are far less interested in electing McCain than they are in putting the Sarahnator one step away from the White House (and, they hope, in it soon).
Edwin Eisendrath | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
The GOP bogeymen don't scare us any more. Barack Obama means we can get back to long delayed work of building a government that is worthy of a great democracy.
Mary Lyon | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
I'm sorry, Senator McCain. This IS the bed you and Palin made. And it is hideous. No wonder you don't want to lie down on it.
Eric Deggans | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
It's something people of color face every day: you're a symbol to the world until you get famous enough that you're not.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
Georgia congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis, reacting to the increasingly incendiary atmosphere at McCain-Palin campaign rallies, condemned...
Charles J. Brown | Posted 11.09.2008 | Home
Over the past week, we have seen a coarsening of political discourse in this country that hasn't been seen in forty years.
Paula Gordon | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
It hurts to watch what's happening to John McCain. We had Senator McCain on our Program in 2002 because democracy requires many perspectives. Much a...
R.T. Eby | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home
Clinton and Obama are both standing on the shoulders of one incredible ground breaker and boundary smasher. She was a Congressperson from New York and the first major party black candidate for president.
Daily Kos | Markos Moulitsas | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In 1972, Republican voters in Michigan decided to make a little mischief, crossing over to vote in the open Democratic primary and voting for segregat...
New York Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Someone has paid more than $2,500 on eBay for one of Dan Rather's Emmy awards. The statue that Rather took home for his 1972 "Coverage of the Shootin...
Katya Wachtel | Posted 08.20.2009 | Entertainment