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Susan Boyle, Gay Marriage, and Not Trusting Your Gut

Jay Michaelson | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gay Rights, Susan Boyle, Martin Luther King, Youtube, Racism, Morality, Malcolm Gladwell, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Entertainment News

I've learned, however, not to dignify the "gut reactions" of bigotry with any kind of value. This is how moral progress takes place: we learn to stop trusting the gut reactions based on falsehoods we've been taught.

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Going to the Mat: Confessions of a Yoga Guinea Pig

Nicholas Rosen | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil-Rights-Movement, Yoga, Corner Bistro, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Bistro Burger, Civil Rights Movmement, Bollywood, Kanye-West, Cross-Legged Headstands, Enlighten Up!, Stretching, Martin-Luther-King, Breathing, Meditative Breathing, Human Sacrafice, Chanting, Pranayama Breathing, Kanye West, Xiphoid Process, Yogi, Non-Attachment, Westernized Yoga, Universal Love, Meditation, Core-Strengthening, Yogis, Living News

The stretching and breathing, when coupled with a meditative, focused intention, can make you feel pretty damn good, even if the whole thing is choreographed to a Kanye West track.

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Breaking the Silence: Escalation in Afghanistan Does Not Keep America Safe

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

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By escalating in Afghanistan and putting more foreign troops into the region, we drive Taliban recruitment and power. There is another way.

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The Ongoing Struggle for Workers' Rights

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Stewart Acuff, Labor Movement, Martin Luther King, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Politics News

For workers in the private sector it is harder to form a union and engage in collective bargaining today than it was in 1968.

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How Patriotism Can Save America

Paul K. Chappell | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, United States, Patriotism, Martin Luther King, Truth, Slavery, Politics News

Patriotism requires us to question our government and think critically so that America can become a more humane, just, and peaceful country for all of its citizens and a role model for the rest of the world.

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The Challenges to Black Media Under President Obama

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media

Read More: African American Media, Black Media, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Obama Black Media, Martin Luther King Assassination, Barack Obama, African Americans, Media News

Critical and constructive analysis of President Obama's policies is certainly more useful than our Black Media's continued uncritical celebration of our new president.

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Let's Talk About Values, Obama

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Aig, Subprime Mortgages, Martin Luther King, Values, Aig Bonuses, President Obama, Michael Bloomberg, Wall Street Bonuses, Rabbi, Living News

Man, if only we Rabbis, ministers, and Priests were also rewarded for failure. Given the new poll just released that shows atheism increasing in America, we'd get a bonus.

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Boomer Nostalgia: Can We Trust Our Past?

Jim Selman | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Malcolm X, Retrospective, Watergate, Boomers, Martin Luther King, Paradox, Woodstock, Living News

I am generally not big on trips down memory lane, but there's a nice retrospective of the 60s I came across that was kind of fun. It seems like a long...

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Rush: Still Shovel-Ready After All These Years!

Randall Amster | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Shovel-Ready, Rush Limbaugh, Humor, Limbaugh, Economy, Sexual Orientation, Drugs, Media, Gay, Rush Limbaugh Kennedy, Race, Feminism, Gender, HIV/AIDS, Limbaugh Obama Fails, Martin Luther King, Slavery, Sexism, Oil, Environment, Homeless, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Racism, Love, Humor and Satire, Politics News

Seriously, you've got to love Rush Limbaugh. Here's just a very brief sampling of Rush's grossest hits.

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Obama's Plan Is About Dreams, Not Dollars

Will Bunch | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama Ronald Reagan, Federal Budget Deficit, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, College, Cancer, Barack Obama, Politics News

It's true -- Barack Obama cannot cure cancer. By as president, he has the power to do something else that's almost as amazing: To help America to dream big again.

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

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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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Still Crazy After All These Years: Censorship in the 21st Century

Kelly Carlin-McCall | Posted 03.12.2009 | Home

Read More: George Carlin, Martin Luther King, Mark Twain Awards, Kennedy Honors, Pbs, Television @Y:Entertainment, Language, Swearing, Home News

Last Wednesday PBS aired the Mark Twain Prize in which my father, George Carlin, was posthumously honored for his life long work in Comedy.

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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

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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An Open Letter to President Obama

Jason Pollock | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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You have forever changed what it means to be the President of the United States and I'm so grateful and happy for your existence.

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Dear Obama and Gov. Manchin: Act on Coal River Crisis

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Coal, Carol Browner, Renewable Energy, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Mountaintop Removal, Black History Month, Stephen Chu, Big Coal, Civil Disobedience, Barack Obama, Wind Energy, Joe Manchin, Epa, Lisa Jackson, Green News

The mechanization of above-ground mountaintop removal has prevented a diverse economy and led to a decrease in coal mining jobs in some of the highest poverty stricken strip-mining areas.

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RED the Book: How to Turn Teenage All-About-Me-ism into Altruism

Amy Goldwasser | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

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Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.

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A Sideshow? Not Our Blago!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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The Irrepressible Blagojevich admits to nothing! He concedes nothing! He never stops smiling! And he does all this while reciting poetry!

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The Beloved Community and the Holy Land

Imam Yahya Hendi and Rabbi Gerald Serotta | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

The harming of civilians -- whether they play in school yards in Southern Israel or seek refuge in schools in Gaza -- constitutes a crime against humanity by any international standard.

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Dr. King's True Legacy: A Lesson for Progressives in the Age of Obama

Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.

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Obama and the Science of Altruism

Jamil Zaki | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Why would we have evolved to feel each other's pain? Two aspects of empathy can help explain this, and the reason that evolution may have selected for strong empathizers in the first place.

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America's Islamic Slave Roots

Frankie Martin | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Slavery, President Obama, Martin Luther King, Sapelo Island, Obama Inauguration, Akbar Ahmed, African Americans, Muslim World, Cornelia Walker Bailey, Research, Inauguration, Georgia, Family, World News

My team and I were on Sapelo Island, off the coast of Georgia, to investigate links between the US and Islam going back centuries to the Africans brought to this country as slaves.

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Our Shared Inheritance

Robert D. Patterson | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

On this chilly January day I yearned for the warmth of July 4th, the warmth that comes from knowing you belong in the land your ancestors toiled upon as slaves, and died for in wars.

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Notes from a "Pro-Abortionist"

Jenna Henry Hansen | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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Although "feminist" and "pro-choice" are not interchangeable, I know many women that are "accused" of being a feminist and/or pro-abortion just for speaking up.

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My Inaugural Reflections

Sen. Barbara Boxer | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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I cannot help but think of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who 47 years ago stood on steps of the Lincoln Memorial and spoke of his dream. Tuesday, that long-awaited, long-fought-for dream of equality was realized.

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