“The New Mind of the South”: Not your daddy’s Dixie
A daughter of the South says the region is changing more than even those who live there realize
Sunday, Mar 17, 2013 10:30 PM UTC 60Entertainment What to Read, Books, Nonfiction
Civil rights movement
Entertainment What to Read, Books, Nonfiction
Could SCOTUS indirectly help the civil rights movement?
If the Court strikes down the Voting Rights Act, history suggests activists would force Congress to strengthen it
Monday, Mar 4, 2013 6:18 PM UTC 12Politics Voting Rights Act
Evangelism’s secret history of racial discrimination
The movement's founding moral outrage stemmed not from Roe v. Wade, but from the prospect of desegregation
Saturday, Feb 9, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 58Social Religion Dispatches, Abortion
8 things you probably didn’t know about Martin Luther King Jr.
As enduring as his civil rights work has been, much of the doctor's life remains unknown to the American public
Monday, Jan 21, 2013 4:00 PM UTCPolitics AlterNet, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong
Think it was a decade of sex, protest and psychedelics? Nope. As late as 1964, the decade looked like the '50s
Saturday, Nov 24, 2012 2:00 PM UTC 94Life The Eve of Destruction
Time to march on Washington again for jobs and freedom
An open letter to AFL-CIO president Richard L. Trumka
Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 10:46 PM UTCPolitics Richard L. Trumka
Quote of the day
History in the making
Tuesday, Aug 21, 2012 8:29 PM UTCNews Martin Luther King
Mitt Romney shakes off boos at NAACP
The Republican Party's devolving relationship with black voters
Wednesday, Jul 11, 2012 4:48 PM UTC 84Politics 2012 Elections, Mitt Romney, Race
The new face of “Democrats are the real racists!”
The National Review's lame attempt at revisionist political history
Monday, May 28, 2012 11:45 AM UTC 101Politics American History
Gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny dies
The civil rights activist was 86
Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 11:00 AM UTCNews Civil rights movement
Breitbart shock: Obama was in same place at same time as New Black Panthers
Right-wingers once again try to connect the president to a fringe group of laughable conservative boogeymen
Monday, Oct 3, 2011 7:25 PM UTC 28Politics Andrew Breitbart
Politico commenters weigh in on the White House’s historic civil rights painting
Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With" now hangs at the White House, upsetting... certain kinds of people
Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011 9:30 PM UTC 61Politics Politico, War Room, Barack Obama
Rick Santorum just said what most antiabortion activists think
The long-shot 2012 candidate isn't alone in claiming he doesn't understand how a black person can be pro-choice
Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 8:15 PM UTC 109Politics Rick Santorum, War Room
America’s most persecuted minority group: Republicans
On this Martin Luther King Day, spare a thought for America's forgotten minority: Comfortable white conservatives
Monday, Jan 17, 2011 9:01 PM UTC 72Politics Republican Party, War Room
Author of Barbour profile comments on controversy
The Weekly Standard scribe who profiled Haley Barbour offers context on the governor's remarks
Monday, Dec 20, 2010 8:21 PM UTC 25Politics 2012 Elections, War Room
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal, a rights landmark
Civil rights activists take stock in the accomplishment and of what more needs to be done
Sunday, Dec 19, 2010 6:34 PM UTC 47News Don't Ask Don't Tell
Wednesday link dump: Fight the imaginary cuts
Misremembering the history of conservative Democrats, fantastical budget proposals, and whining to Morning Joe
Thursday, Nov 11, 2010 12:01 AM UTCPolitics War Room, Civil rights movement
Hot chile nuts — crunchy, sweet and fiery
Forget those airplane nuts and try these, booming with a homemade chile powder and smoothed over with honey
Tuesday, Nov 9, 2010 2:01 AM UTCLife Civil rights movement
Jon Stewart’s great risk
Historian Taylor Branch on the promise -- and huge potential pratfalls -- of the "Rally to Restore Sanity"
Friday, Sep 24, 2010 11:01 AM UTC 112Politics Jon Stewart, War Room
Monday link dump: Ugg motivation
The Wall Street Journal shills for corporate boots, Congress is back in session, and vaccines are still safe
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