The Voting Rights Act is said, by many, to be the greatest of the Civil Rights Legislation of the 1960s. You can read more
Howard Zinn R.I.P.
Wed 3 Feb 7:17 PM
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Rare are those Americans who are able to articulate in the clearest of terms essential matters of fact and truth with such sustained passion that further clarification on such issues is not really required.
In the realm of the arts, Louis Armstrong, whose body of work in the American jazz medium ...
A Blues for Haiti
Tue 19 Jan 8:03 AM
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If for a moment we were to look beyond the horrific news currently emanating from Haiti after it suffered one of its most ferocious natural disasters in 200 years, we would observe a more serious problem of significantly lasting consequence facing generations of Haitians and their friends in the western ...
On Being Mae Jemison
Thu 8 May 12:50 PM
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I recently had the opportunity of hearing the American astronaut Mae Jemison speak to a group of non-profit leaders, only to witness that beyond her remarkable intelligence sits a sparkling patriotism that perhaps would amaze most Americans simply on the merits of its profound emotional and spiritual depth.
Jemison, as most ...
Midnight in Memphis
Sun 6 Apr 11:28 AM
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In less than twenty-four hours after he had concluded his last civic sermon in Memphis at Mason Temple Church of God in Christ 40 years ago this April, Martin Luther King Jr. would be dead and approximately 100 cities across America would be in flames and in the full stages ...
Presidential Selection
Sun 3 Feb 2:06 PM
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The presidential primary this tuesday will usher in a new day of electoral politics in the United States and not because of the people who are in the race.
By election day end, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will be the first black and women to have travelled so far toward ...