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

Irene Monroe | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty Debate, Thomas Jefferson, Ebony Magazine, Reverend Joseph Lowery, A. Leon Higginbotham, African American, Black History Month, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Virginia, Martin Luther King, Cesare Beccaria, Slavery, On Crimes and Punishment, Abolition Democracy, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Death Penalty, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Abolitionists, Politics News
Diann Rust-Tierney

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

Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Equality, Al Sharpton, Americans, America, Racial Equality, Martin Luther King Jr., World Peace, Legacy, Peace, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Freedom of Speech, Racial Politics, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King, Lyndon B. Johnson, Vietnam War, Freedom, Abraham Lincoln, Racism, Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson, Justice, African-Americans, Politics News
Kimberle Crenshaw

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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Cirilo McSween: An Extraordinary Life

Hermene Hartman | Posted 12.27.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, New York Life Insurance, Civil Rights Movement, Cirilo McSween, Cirilo McSween Death, Martin Torrijos, Cirilo McSween Dies, Chicago News
Hermene Hartman

Cirilo McSween died November 4, 2008, almost to the hour of Barack Obama's acceptance speech. It was one of life's poetic moments.

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