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Remembering Fred Shuttlesworth: The Most Courageous Man in America

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 02.20.2012

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Marian Wright Edelman

“That Fred Shuttlesworth did not become a martyr was not for lack of trying… There was not a person in the civil rights movement who put ...

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Why Dr. King Would Have Championed Universal Broadband Adoption

David Honig | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Broadband, Sclc, Martin Luther King, Digital Citizenship, Civil Rights Act, Broadband Adoption, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Martin Luther King Jr., Phone Tree, Martin Luther King Memorial, Technology, Broadband Access, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bus Boycott, Digital Divide, Technology News
David Honig

As the nation prepares to dedicate Dr. Martin Luther King's National Memorial, let's give ourselves this thought experiment: "What would Dr. King be doing today if he were armed with the social media and telecommunications technology we take for granted?"

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NAACP Holds First-Ever Town Hall on LGBT Issues at LA Convention Center

Karen Ocamb | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Ben Jealous, LGBT Issues, Alice Huffman, Prop 8, Naacp, Marriage Equality, Sclc, Los Angeles News
Karen Ocamb

The California chapter of the NAACP under President Alice Huffman has been a steadfast and courageous supporter of marriage equality since 2004. But ...

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Bernice King Leaving Eddie Long's Atlanta Megachurch

AP | ERRIN HAINES | Posted 07.31.2011

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ATLANTA — The youngest daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. says she is leaving an Atlanta megachurch where the pastor has bee...

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Black Civil Rights Groups Are On The Wrong Side Of LGBT Issues

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bernice King, Civil Rights Movement, Black Church, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Martin Luther King, Sclc, Homophobia, Gay Marriage, African Americans, Lgbt, MLK Day, Religion News
Irene Monroe

Key African-American organizations and institutions of the Movement have lost the moral high ground that was once so easily associated with them.

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King's Daughter Leads Crowd In Prayer For Civil Rights Unity

AP | ERRIN HAINES | Posted 05.25.2011

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ATLANTA — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter is calling for the fractured membership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to ...

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Will Rev. Bernice King's Bully Pulpit at SCLC Bash Gays?

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Irene Monroe

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's religious rhetoric against LGBTQ citizens chokes progress, hinders equality, and allows religion-based bigotry to flourish.

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Mormon Church on Prop 8: We Oppose Civil Rights (But Don't Tell)

Rick Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Jacobs

On Daily Kos yesterday, Dante Atkins provided a smoking gun memo showing that the Mormon Church has planned for more than a decade to hide behind others in its attempt to suppress civil rights.

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When Bad PR Happens to Good People, or, Jeffrey Birnbaum's Revenge

William Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Klein

Washington Post columnist Jeffrey Birnbaum has his panties in a twist again about the practice of public policy advocates employing professional writers to help them draft newspaper op-eds.

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