Hey, Glenn Beck, I was at the March on Washington
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Why do conservatives pretend “racism is dead”?
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Get your hands off MLK, Glenn Beck
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California’s gay marriage case nears closing
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Rand Paul, dorm room libertarian
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Monday, Jun 7, 2010 7:45 PM UTC 37Politics Rand Paul, War Room
Video: Rand Paul might’ve just won over these Kentucky voters
A classic 2008 YouTube clip explains why Rand needn't worry about a Civil Rights Act gaffe costing him too much
Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:05 PM UTC 65Politics Rand Paul, War Room
Israel blocks Noam Chomsky’s entrance
Interior Ministry cites "various reasons" for not allowing the linguist to lecture in the West Bank
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Malcolm X assassin is freed on parole in N.Y.
Thomas Hagan, the man who admitted to killing the civil rights leader, is released from a Manhattan prison
Tuesday, Apr 27, 2010 6:55 PM UTCNews New York City
Protests rebuke Arizona immigration law
Thousands opposing the new Arizona immigration bill gather in Phoenix
Sunday, Apr 25, 2010 8:18 PM UTC 57News Immigration
Texas court hears state’s appeal in gay divorce
A man tries to complete a same-sex divorce in Texas, from a marriage validated in Massachusetts
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“Hellhound on His Trail”: The creep who killed MLK
The seedy true-crime story of how James Earl Ray assassinated a great American hero
Sunday, Apr 18, 2010 11:01 PM UTC 68Entertainment What to Read, American History
King’s lost dream
The final volume of Taylor Branch's magisterial biography shows how Martin Luther King Jr. reached out to his enemies. His example should shame the shrill partisans on both sides of our poisonous cultural divide.
Wednesday, Feb 1, 2006 7:40 PM UTCEntertainment Race, Martin Luther King, Jr.
America’s storyteller
Legendary oral historian Studs Terkel, still going strong at 91, sings the praises of rebels with a cause.
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“Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
The power of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights call-to-arms comes from watching a great man grapple with the possibility that he's wrong.
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Prodigal daughter
A golden girl from Birmingham's elite takes a cold, hard look at her hometown's ugly past -- and her own father's role in it.
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Mixing it up
Alabama just legalized black-white marriage. An expert talks about why it took so long and the American obsession with racial purity.
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Addicted to violence
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Wednesday, Mar 15, 2000 5:00 PM UTCPolitics Civil rights movement, Guns
Throw away the key!
Jesse Jackson has betrayed the civil rights movement by defending young thugs who need to be punished, not babied.
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Young, black and too white
Once exclusionary bastions of the negro elite, black social clubs for kids are making a comeback among middle-class parents who fear their chlidren are losing their roots.
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