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  • February 2008

    • Lewis Switches His Support to Obama

      Atlanta Journal-Constitution  |  Feb 27, 08 5:15 PM CST

      Lewis Switches His Support to Obama

      (Newser) - After a month of shifting signals, influential congressman John Lewis said today he’s switching his support from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Lewis says he’s unwilling to go against the voters in his Atlanta district—and that Obama “has tapped into something that is extraordinary.” The civil-rights leader irked local African-Americans by lining up behind Clinton early. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • superdelegates  • civil rights  • Atlanta  • African-American voters  • John Lewis

    • Rights Activist Carr Dies at 97

      Montgomery Advertiser (Alamaba)  |  Feb 23, 08 4:00 PM CST

      Rights Activist Carr Dies at 97

      (Newser) - Johnnie Rebecca Carr, an early leader in the civil rights movement and compatriot of Rosa Parks, has died of a stroke at age 97, the Montgomery Advertiser reports. Carr helped organize the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1955 after Parks made her famous stand on a city bus. The group's yearlong boycott caught the nation's attention. She later served as the group's president and was active with it until her death. More »

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      race relations  • civil rights  • Martin Luther King Jr.  • boycott  • civil rights movement  • Rosa Parks

    • Spears Pal Strikes Back Against Dad

      E! Online  |  Feb 16, 08 7:34 AM CST

      Spears Pal Strikes Back Against Dad

      (Newser) - Britney Spears' former manager and pal Sam Lutfi is trying to liberate her from her family's control by getting her case moved from Los Angeles to federal court, E! reports.  He's arguing in a petition that Jamie Spears is unfit to oversee his daughter's life and that she's being unfairly denied the right to see friends, make phone calls, drive her car, receive mail, and have access to her money. "Sam is at war with Jamie. This is his first strike," a Spears insider told E! yesterday. More »

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      Britney Spears  • civil rights  • Jamie Spears  • federal courts  • conservatorship  • Sam Lutfi  • mental breakdown

  • January 2008

    • Kids Line Up Behind Obama

      Voice of America  |  Jan 28, 08 4:07 PM CST

      Kids Line Up Behind Obama

      (Newser) - With "youth vote" challenging "change" as the buzzword of the 2008 elections, Barack Obama is drawing hordes of young people tired of what one campaign worker calls “the old partisan fights and bickering,” reports Voice of America. John Edwards also appeals to the young, but the Clinton camp hasn’t made a concerted effort. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • civil rights  • Latino voters  • young voters

    • King's Church Rings With Praise

      Associated Press  |  Jan 21, 08 3:04 PM CST

      King's Church Rings With Praise

      (Newser) - The Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached his message of racial equality rang with praise today for the slain civil rights leader, reports the AP. Hundreds of notables, including Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee, and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, crammed into Ebenezer Baptist Church. "King's legacy gives light to our hopes, permission to our aspirations, and relevance to our dreams," said Franklin. More »

    • Obama Visits MLK's Church

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jan 20, 08 7:50 PM CST

      Obama Visits MLK's Church

      (Newser) - On the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr. day, Barack Obama visited the civil rights leader’s old church and repeated his mantra of unity, the Chicago Tribune reports. “If enough Americans were awakened to the injustice,” Obama said, “if they joined together, then perhaps that wall would come tumbling down." Atlanta's mayor attended the event, which coincided with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution 's endorsement of Obama. More »

    • Cheney May Testify in 'Assault' Arrest Lawsuit

      New York Times  |  Jan 18, 08 3:00 AM CST

      Cheney May Testify in 'Assault' Arrest Lawsuit

      (Newser) - Vice President Dick Cheney may be questioned under oath in a free-speech and civil rights lawsuit brought by a man who was arrested and threatened with assault charges when he approached Cheney at a ski resort. The 2006 incident has sparked a storm of controversy inside the Secret Service with agents charging one another of a cover-up. Steven Howards was busted when he touched or pushed Cheney on the shoulder and called US policy in Iraq "disgusting," More »

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      Dick Cheney  • civil rights  • assault  • Secret Service  • polygraph

    • Obama Pastor Faulted for Farrakhan Rave

      Washington Post  |  Jan 15, 08 4:38 PM CST

      Obama Pastor Faulted for Farrakhan Rave

      (Newser) - Barack Obama’s controversial pastor is back in the press—and the blogosphere—this time for praising Louis Farrakhan in an issue of the church's magazine, calling him "an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose." The Washington Post's Richard Cohen has a beef with heralding the "integrity and honesty" of the man he deems an archetypal anti-Semite, and says Obama must distance himself. More »

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      Barack Obama  • election 2008  • racism  • Jeremiah Wright  • civil rights  • anti-Semitism  • Jewish  • Louis Farrakhan  • Nation of Islam

  • December 2007

    • Sharpton Insists He Still Has a Role to Play

      Washington Post  |  Dec 26, 07 2:34 PM CST

      Sharpton Insists He Still Has a Role to Play

      (Newser) - Is there a place for Al Sharpton in a Barack Obama world? The first black politician with a serious shot at the Oval Office hardly mentions race, whereas Sharpton is, as one historian puts it, “kind of a racial ambulance chaser.” But Sharpton isn’t worried. “They say we don’t matter,” he tells the Washington Post , then “they want to know who we’re endorsing.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • election 2008  • race relations  • civil rights  • Don Imus  • Al Sharpton  • Jena Six

    • Debaters Inspires, Critics Argue

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Dec 25, 07 5:01 PM CST

      Debaters Inspires, Critics Argue

      (Newser) - The Great Debaters , which follows a Jim Crow-era black debate team, aims only for “inspirational pop entertainment in the Oprah Winfrey mode,” but it still manages to resonate, says the New York Times’ Stephen Holden. It is conventional, and sometimes clichéd, in telling the classic underdog story. “The wonder is that (it) transcends its own simplifying and manipulative ploys,” Holden says. “It radiates nobility of spirit.” More »

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      movie  • movie review  • Oprah Winfrey  • civil rights  • Denzel Washington

    • Supremes: Judges Can Shorten Crack Sentences

      CNN  |  Dec 10, 07 1:00 PM CST

      Supremes: Judges Can Shorten Crack Sentences

      (Newser) - The Supreme Court ruled today that federal judges can use discretion to order shorter prison sentences in crack cocaine crimes, to lessen a disparity with sentencing for powdered cocaine. It was a win for civil rights advocates, who have long argued that sentencing guidelines call for longer terms in crimes involving crack because defendants are overwhelmingly from urban and minority communities, CNN reports. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • cocaine  • civil rights  • crack cocaine  • sentencing guidelines  • federal sentencing

  • November 2007
  • October 2007

    • Label Doesn't Fit to a T

      Salon  |  Oct 10, 07 3:46 PM CDT

      Label Doesn't Fit to a T

      (Newser) - As the fate of legislation that would protect gay people from employment discrimination hangs in the balance, gay leaders have withdrawn support—because protection for the transgendered has been dropped from the bill. The liberal instinct to “want it all now” has run amok, John Aravosis argues, and boosters need to get “practical” and get the bill passed immediately. More »

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      Congress  • gay rights  • homosexuality  • civil rights  • transgender

  • September 2007

    • DA Ends Bid to Try 'Jena 6' Teen as Adult

      Reuters  |  Sep 27, 07 4:39 PM CDT

      DA Ends Bid to Try 'Jena 6' Teen as Adult

      (Newser) - A prosecutor has given up attempts to have one of the Louisiana teenagers at the center of a civil-rights furor tried as an adult, Reuters reports. Mychal Bell, 17, was convicted in June of battery in the beating of a white classmate, but an appeals court overturned the verdict on grounds that Bell couldn't be tried as an adult. More »

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      civil rights  • Al Sharpton  • racial inequality  • Jena Six  • Mychal Bell

    • Civil Rights Icons Return to Little Rock

      Associated Press  |  Sep 25, 07 3:49 PM CDT

      Civil Rights Icons Return to Little Rock

      (Newser) - The Little Rock Nine returned to Central High today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the school's integration. Once escorted by soldiers from the 101st Airborne, they arrived by limousine to a school that's now 52% black, the AP reports. "They didn't ask to be a part of history, but they certainly are now," said US Rep. Mike Ross. More »

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      Bill Clinton  • civil rights  • Arkansas  • civil rights movement

    • 50K Rally to Support 'Jena Six'

      Chicago Tribune  |  Sep 20, 07 12:30 PM CDT

      50K Rally to Support 'Jena Six'

      (Newser) - Busload after busload of civil rights marchers alighted in Jena, La., today to support the “Jena Six,” a group of black students charged with felonies after a 2006 fight with a white classmate. An estimated 50,000 mostly-black protesters easily outnumbered the mostly-white population of the town, where racial tensions have swirled since last year when nooses in the schoolyard prompted the fight. More »

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      protests  • race  • race relations  • Louisiana  • civil rights  • Jesse Jackson  • Al Sharpton  • Jena Six

    • Flip-Floppers See Light—Or Just Want Job

      Time  |  Sep 18, 07 8:26 AM CDT

      Flip-Floppers See Light&mdash;Or Just Want Job

      (Newser) - Maybe Mitt Romney and John Kerry should hold their flip-flopping heads high: Changes of mind have furthered the causes of abolition and civil rights over the centuries. Ronald Reagan defiantly claimed his biggest reversal—promising feet “in concrete” about raising taxes, then singing “the sound of concrete cracking” when he hiked them—but flip-floppers are often less than pure. More »

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      election 2008  • Mitt Romney  • presidential election  • John Kerry  • taxes  • civil rights  • Ronald Reagan  • flip flop  • Lyndon Johnson  • slavery

  • August 2007

    • School Segregation Is Up

      Reuters  |  Aug 30, 07 7:39 AM CDT

      School Segregation Is Up

      (Newser) - US public schools are more and more divided by race, a trend likely to continue thanks to a June Supreme Court ruling forbidding most local integration efforts, Reuters reports. Many black and Latino children, who now make up 43% of the population, are receiving what a leading civil rights research center calls "separate and inferior" educations as a result.   More »

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      children  • education  • race  • civil rights  • school  • Segregation

    • Ex-Klansman Gets 3 Life Terms for 1964 Murders

      Clarion-Ledger  |  Aug 24, 07 3:45 PM CDT

      Ex-Klansman Gets 3 Life Terms for 1964 Murders

      (Newser) - A 72-year-old ex-Klansman drew three life sentences today for his involvement in the 1964 murders of two black teens in Mississippi, the Clarion-Ledger reports. "Justice is ageless," the judge told James Ford Seale, who was found guilty in June of kidnapping and conspiracy in the abduction, beating, and drowning of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore. More »

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      murder  • kidnapping  • civil rights  • conspiracy  • hate crime  • Ku Klux Klan  • Charles Eddie Moore  • Henry Hezekiah Dee  • James Ford Seale  • KKK

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