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Walter Cronkite Records Destroyed By FBI

USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, Foia, Records, National Archives, Research, Cronkite, Walter Cronkite, Fbi, Freedom of Information Act, Rosa Parks, FBI File, Alex Heard, Cbs, Media News

A search of the agency's main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cronkite's name were destroyed in October 2007, t...

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The Uninsured Has a Black Face -- White Ambivalence Is Obama's Struggle

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Mongers, President Obama, News, African American President, Hateful Acts, White Ambivalence, Obama, White Privilege, Hate Crimes, Racists, Hate Groups, Rosa Parks, John Dovidio, Liberal Racism, Great White Hope, African Americans, Post Racial Society, Politics, Right Wing, Blacks, Barack Obama, Reparations, Breaking News, Yale, Racism, Race, Healthcare Reform, Functional Racism, Whites, Prof. Dovidio, Health Care, Dr. John Dovidio, Hate, Dovidio, Politics News

Yale professor, John Dovidio, does not feel the ongoing protests, name calling and Hitler labels by white protesters are hate, but a fight by whites struggling to defend and maintain their position and status.

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Rosa Parks Poster Torn Up At McCaskill Town Hall (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Dean | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mccaskill Town Hall, Rosa Parks Sign, Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks Poster Torn Up, Rosa Parks Poster, Politics News

Among the many eyebrow-raising clips aired on major news networks yesterday from Senator Claire McCaskill's health care town hall was one of a woman b...

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The Case of Henry Gates

Hermene Hartman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Skip Gates, Al Sharpton, Obama Gates, Amadou Diallo, Racism, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge, Politics News

What happened to Gates is a daily occurrence in American ghettos. Police officers sometimes unfairly stop black men while driving their cars. It's called a "DWB" incident: driving while black. .

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Big Radio's Attacks on Me Aren't Surprising

Dionne Warwick | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: National Association of Broadcasters, Cathy Hughes, Congressional Black Caucus, Alfred Liggins, Dionne Warwick, Congressman John Conyers, Clear Channel, Rosa Parks, Radio One, Performance Rights Act, Civil Rights for Musicians Act, Entertainment News

There is nothing "stupid" about insisting that African American workers are paid for their labor. The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists.

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Inauguration Day: Continuing the Dream

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Inauguration, Obama's Inauguration, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, 100 Days, Politics News

Dr. King's dream isn't ending with President Obama's inauguration. Instead, President Obama now has the opportunity to take that dream to the next level.

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A Hero's Journey: Barack Obama Goes To Washington

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living

Read More: The Hero's Journey, Oath of Office, Loyalty Oath, Obama's Inauguration, Barack Obama, I've Got a Dream Speech, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Living News

The Inauguration and Call to Service Congratulations, America! Today, we got ourselves a new president! Com...

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Barack Obama and the Promise of Progress

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

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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What The Inauguration Means To Me

Robert D. Patterson | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Carole Robertson, Indiana University School of Medicine, Goodman, Underground Railroad, Depauw University, Barack Obama Inauguration, Lorraine Wilson Patterson, Rosa Parks, Addie Mae Collins, Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, African Americans, Barack Obamas Mother, Lorraine Patterson, Keith Woodard Scholarship Fund, Robert D Patterson, Mountain Top Speech, Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglas, Chaney, Promised Land, Barack Obama, University of Louisville, George Rawls, We Shall Overcome, Abraham Lincoln, Spike Lee, National Association of Black Journalist, Schwerner, So You Want to Be a Doctor, Ann Dunham Soetoro, Benjamin Carson, Harriet Tubman, Four Little Girls, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Living News

The significance of Obama's inauguration resides in the sweat, blood, and tears shed by our forefathers so that people of all races, creed, and gender could share in the American inheritance.

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Why Pastor Rick Warren Was the Wright Move

Beau Friedlander | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics

As it stands, we've got a president-elect who is putting Rev. Jeremiah Wright behind him for good so he can deliver on some campaign promises. Stay tuned... And keep the faith.

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"Fagots -- Stay Out"

Tom Gregory | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Janis Joplin, Barney's Beanery, Prop 8, No on 8, David Bohnett, President Obama, Religious Right, Michael Fleming, Religion and Politics, Matthew Shepard, Adolf Hitler, Rosa Parks, Lawrence King, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, Politics News

In Barack Obama's silence, he voiced his opinion. Obama quietly let millions of his supporters vote for their political evolution while simultaneously selecting prejudice.

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