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William Bradley | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment

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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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President Obama Should Show He's Queer Like Us

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Nathaniel Frank

Show the world, Mr. President, how we are just like you, and perhaps more important, how you are just like us: In what ways are we pretty normal, and in what ways are you kinda Queer?

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9/12 March 'Tea Party' Photo: False Image Spread By Anti-Reform Activists

Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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Tea Party protesters trying to tout the size of their march on Washington last weekend have been passing around a photo of a packed National Mall. But...

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Tea Party Washington D.C. PHOTOS: Conservative Protesters Rally Against Big Government

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS FROM TODAY'S RALLY (AP) WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of people marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, carrying signs...

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Pandora's Box: The National Equality March

Bil Browning | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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Bil Browning

The LGBT community is used to being downtrodden and dismissed. Prejudice, animosity, and apartheid flew out of Pandora's Box long ago.

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10 Reasons Why a LGBT March on Washington is a Bad Idea

Bil Browning | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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Bil Browning

(Crossposted from The Bilerico Project) Chalk this up as one of the worst ideas ever. Speaking at Utah Pride yesterday, Cleve Jones announced plans ...

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Five Reasons Not to March on Washington DC This October

Karen Ocamb | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

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Karen Ocamb

I am stunned that Obama has so flagrantly forgotten, despite being a constitutional scholar, that equality is the first core founding principle of this country.

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment

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Jesse Larner

As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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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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Here's To Obama and All of Us: We've Come A Long, Long Way!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

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Sandy Goodman

I still remember the clicking of the marchers' heels as they moved into the Birmingham's business district, and, just then, the roar of a police motorcycle as it cut in front of King and Abernathy, halting the protest.

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Obama Does and Doesn't Fulfill King's Dream

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A percentage of whites who said they'd vote for Obama also said that blacks were more crime prone than whites. Yet Obama was seen as a racial exception, the penchant for making these distinctions between blacks.

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Obama! By The Content of His Character

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

We must understand one more thing -- how successful President Obama will be in transforming America in a progressive direction will depend on us, as well as on him.

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