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Governor Rick Perry and His Texas Death Machine Are In Big Trouble

David A. Love | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dna, George Bush, Capital Punishment, Execution, Cameron Todd Willingham, Crime, Rick Perry Secession, George W. Bush, Criminal Justice, Rick Perry, Texas, Jim Crow, New Yorker, Prison, Lynching, Forensic Science, Criminal Justice System, Death Penalty, Craig Beyler, Sharon Keller, Politics News
David A. Love

Cameron Todd Willingham is now a free man, but unfortunately it took death to release him from the confines of his prison bars.

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Marriage Rights Should Not Be Determined By Popular Opinion

Fred Silberberg | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crow, Tyranny-of-the-Majority, Constitutional Law, Equal Protection, Discrimination, Full-Faith-and-Credit-Clause, Minority, Constitution, Separation of Church and State, Defense of Marriage Act, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Activist Judges, Inside DC, Politics News
Fred Silberberg

Allowing marriage to become the subject of a popular opinion poll, as has taken place in this country, disturbs the very principles upon which this nation was founded.

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The Gates Affair: Why We Care

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Troy Davis, Ruben Blades, Al Sharpton, Capital Punishment, Iowa Primaries, James Baldwin, D.C. Statehood, Gitmo, Pablo Escobar, Police Brutality, Liberation Theology, James Crowley, L.A. Riots, Botero, Mount Pleasant STreet Riot, Elijah Mohammed, Civil Rights, Rodney King, Sharon Pratt Dixon, Criminal Just Us System, War on Crime, Vietnam War, Illegal Immigrants, 4th Amendment, Malcolm X, Abu-Ghraib, Pennymac, Louis Farrakhan, The Greaseman, Gentrification, Langston Hughes, Blogosphere, Pedro Navaja, Bill Clinton, Einstein, Colin Powell, Inverse Surveillance, Colombia Road, Adams Morgan, Condoleeza Rice, Jesse Jackson, Driving While Black, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Mayor Bradley, Jim Crow, Marion Barry, 2nd Amendment, Martin Luther King, Park Road, Vicente Fernandez, Cambridge Police Department, Skip Gates, Lapd, War on Drugs, Pancho Villa, LosTigres Del Norte, Wpfw, Mariachis, Politics News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.

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A Few Thoughts About President Obama's Birthday, the Need for Disclosure, and Transparency

Carol M. Swain | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Racism, Jim Crow, Congress, Obama Birth Certificate, President Bush, Barack Obama, Politics News
Carol M. Swain

Once a person becomes the President of the United States, in my humble opinion he or she should belong to the people; therefore, the ordinary rights of privacy should no longer apply.

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A Beer For The Guys -- A Leech For The 911 Caller

Martin Lewis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Female Exploitation, Misrepresented Clients, Wendy Murphy, Beer, Cambridge Police, President Obama, Parasite, Vampire, Publicity-Seekers, Jim Crow, Gloria Allred, Leech, James Crowley, Amber Frey, Limelight, Lucia Whalen, Henry Louis Gates, Publicity Hounds, Incompetence, Politics News
Martin Lewis

While Crowley gets the 15 minutes of White House fame -- and a free beer -- that he inveigled out of the President -- perhaps a decent lawyer will come forward and offer to represent Lucia Whalen.

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Eating Jim Crow(ley): What the Cop Forgot to Say to Professor Gates

Martin Lewis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Collar Resentment of Ivy League, Cambridge Police, President Obama, Class Resentment, Harvard, Reflexive Defensive Statements, Institutional Police Rudeness, Racial Profiling, Authority Figure Hubris, Reflexive Suspicion, Jim Crow, Henry Gates Arrested, Professors, James Crowley, Henry Gates, Ingrained Arrogance, Politics News
Martin Lewis

"Now that I understand that you are the home-owner -- and you were simply having trouble getting into your own home -- will you please accept my profuse apologies for my intrusion."

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HuffPost Review: Prom Night in Mississippi

Katya Wachtel | Posted 08.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Whites, Supreme Court, Poverty, Morgan Freeman, Paul Saltzman, Confederate Flag, Charleston, Prom Night in Mississippi, Sotomayor Hearings, Tallahatchie County, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan Photos, Charleston High School, Blacks, Segregation, Ku Klux Klan, George Wallace, Racism, Mississippi Delta, Desegregation, Integration, Charleston Mississippi, Entertainment News
Katya Wachtel

Morgan Freeman attempts to coax a revolution in his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi, where the local high school still has segregated proms.

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A Law Worth Saving

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crow, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights, Racial Disparities, Racial Discrimination, Apology-Slavery-Jim-Crow, Congress Votes, Politics News
Nicholas Stephanopoulos

The pre-clearance provision is the most powerful weapon against racial discrimination in voting that Congress has ever devised and must be saved.

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Gay People Should Celebrate NAACP's Centennial

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Benjamin Jealous, Naacp and Gays, Racism, Julian Bond, Human Rights Campaign, Naacp Centennial, Naacp, Gay Marriage, Jim Crow, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

We need to make sure that everyone in our community enjoys equal rights in America whatever race, religion or nationality. Racism is a gay issue.

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The US Senate Apologized for Slavery. But We Ain't Gettin' 40 Acres and a Mule!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Europe, President Obama, News, Andrea Merkel, Congo, Forty Acres and a Mule, Jew, Belgian Prime Minister, North America, Guy Verhofstadt, Apology for Slavery, Swahili, Elie Weisel, African Americans, Civil Rights Disaster, German Chancellor, Genocide, Germany, Patrice Lumumba, Slavery, Belgium, Politics, Rwanda Genocide, Holocaust, Congress, American Dream, Barack Obama, Japan, Reparations, Jim Crow, Cnn, Racism, African American, Slavery Apology, Black Folks, Japanese Internment Camps, Slaves, Wolf Blitzer, Buchenwald, Rwanda, Belgian, Maafa, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.

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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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Two by Earth, Three by Fire: Detroit Revisited

Lester Sloan | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Michigan State, Ford, Walter Reuther, Gran Torino, Anderson Cooper, Detroit Riot, Hybrid Cars, Woodward Avenue, Red Wings, Jim Crow, Eastern Market, Final Four, Lynching, River Rouge, White Flight, Stanley Cup, United Auto Workers Union, Detroit Institute of Art, Arson, Fred Astaire, Devil's Night, Motown, Detroit, Greek Town, St.Lawrence Seaway, Chrysler, Pall Mall, Great Migration, Detroit-Michigan, Living News
Lester Sloan

Ironically, it is still Detroit that gives the suburbs a sense of place and America a reason to hope.

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"The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change?

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, California Prison System, Drug Sentencing, Governor Paterson, Prison System, Economy, Prison Legal News, Drugs, Solomon Moore, War on Drugs, DOJ Prosecutor, Deficit, Death Penalty Information Center, Alternative to Incarceration, Low-Level Drug Offenders, Partnership for Responsible Drug Information, Paul Butler, Taxpayer Money, Bernard Madoff, Budget Deficit, Prison Reform, Prison Population, Drug Treatment, Incarceration, Crime, Budget, Incarceration Rates, Paul Wright, George Washington University Law School, Punishment, Sentencing, Jim Crow, New York Senate, Prison, California Commission on Fair Administration of Justice, Drug Offenders, New York Times, New York Budget, Nelson Rockefeller, Death Penalty, New York State Assembly, Richard Deiter, Madoff Jail, Errol Louis, Alternative Treatment Drug Offenders, Palladia, Politics News
Odile Weissenborn

In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.

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In Anti-Drug Policy, Race Remains

Jamie Fellner | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crow, Drug War Race, Drug War, Racism, War on Drugs, War on Drugs Race, Drug Laws, Politics News
Jamie Fellner

It only takes fifteen minutes in any courthouse, watching the parade of black defendants arrested on drug charges, to realize racism still haunts us.

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The Signifying Monkey: Why Cartoons Matter

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cartoons, Racism, Jim Crow, Fox, Nazis, Sean Delonas, The New York Post, New York Post Cartoon, Politics News
Casey Gane-McCalla

If you research the earlier work of New York Post cartoonist Sean Delona, it's clear that he's a right wing bigot who routinely dehumanizes people from different viewpoints and cultures.

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21st Century Bull Connor Closer to Feeling Fire Hose Turned on Him

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crow, John Conyers, Acorn, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Bobby Scott, Janet Napolitano, Jerrold Nadler, Joe Arpaio, Bertha Lewis, Immigration, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Eric Holder, Immigration Debate, Politics News
Bertha Lewis

The Arpaio spectacle shows that a police-state solution does not work.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Suburbs, Europe, Sweden, Natural Disasters, Civil Rights Act, Presidential Election 2008, President Lyndon Johnson, America, First Black President, Black History Month, New Black Panther Party, Change, Change in America, White Flight, Malcolm X, Racism, Jfk, Nigeria, Nation of Islam, Fela Kuti, R&b, Terrorism, Washington D.C., Ethnic Minorities, Black President T-Shirt, Time Magazine, American Dream, Barack Obama, Lauri Lyons, Election, Militancy, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Beatles, Democratic Nomination, Kenya, Million Man March, Minorities, President Obama, Iowa Caucus, Economic Depression, Affirmative Action, Reparations, Busing, Inauguration, Slavery, Justice, African Americans, "I Have a Dream" Speech, Yes We Can, Equality, Zimbabwe, Africa, Black President, War, Black Panther Party, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Democracy, United States, Dwayne Rodgers, France, Jim Crow, Corporate America, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Higher Education, Shepard Fairey, President George W. Bush, Robert Kennedy, Post-Racial, Selma Alabama, Michelle Obama, Obama Family, The Movement, Lauren Erickson, March on Washington, Flag International, Video, Politics News
Lauri Lyons

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Daring to Hope on the Washington Mall

Stephen Zunes | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Patriotism, Civil Rights Movement, Change, Obama's Inauguration, Hope, Inauguration, Obama Inauguration, Obama, Barack Obama, Youth, Sacrifice, Barack Obama Inauguration, Students, Happiness, Jim Crow, Mississippi, Singing, African-Americans, Politics News
Stephen Zunes

I was able to shed tears of joy on a number of occasions this Tuesday. I wasn't just relieved that a Democrat had won the White House. I was actually... happy.

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GOP Attempting To Keep Eligible African-Americans From Voting In Several States

Newsweek | Jonathan Alter | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crow, African-American Votes, African-Americans Voting, Black Votes, Voting, GOP Black Voters, Politics News

It was a mainstay of Jim Crow segregation: for 100 years after the Civil War, Southern white Democrats kept eligible blacks from voting with poll taxe...

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