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King's Church Rings With Praise

Bill Clinton, Huckabee pay respects to civil rights leader

Jan 21, 08 3:04 PM CST
(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... More »

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African Americans • Bill Clinton • Mike Huckabee • civil rights • Martin Luther King Jr. • Ebenezer Baptist Church • Shirley Franklin • racial equality

Obama Visits MLK's Church

Senator speaks of 'empathy deficit' as Clinton campaigns in Harlem

Jan 20, 08 7:50 PM CST
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Atlanta • civil rights • Martin Luther King Jr. • Harlem • African-American voters • Ebenezer Baptist Church

Cheney May Testify in 'Assault' Arrest Lawsuit

Turmoil in Cheney's Secret Service detail

Jan 18, 08 3:00 AM CST
(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... More »

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Dick Cheney • Secret Service • civil rights • assault • Steven Howards • Virgil D. Reichle • Beaver Creek Resort • polygraph

OPINION

Obama Pastor
Faulted for
Farrakhan Rave

Incensed scribe cries racism; candidate deplores same

Jan 15, 08 4:38 PM CST
(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."... More »

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

Sharpton Insists He Still Has
a Role to Play

Civil rights leader not threatened by new wave of black politicians

Dec 26, 07 2:34 PM CST
(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... More »

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

NEW RELEASE

Debaters Inspires, Critics Argue

Film may play it by wrote, but it does it with conviction

Dec 25, 07 5:01 PM CST
(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... More »

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

Supremes: Judges Can Shorten Crack Sentences

Court sides with
judicial discretion

Dec 10, 07 1:00 PM CST
(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... More »

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

Justice Dept. March Targets Hate Crimes

Thousands rally in DC for more aggressive prosecution

Nov 16, 07 3:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Thousands of marchers converged near the Justice Department in Washington, DC, today, to protest what they say is a lax attitude toward prosecuting hate crimes. The marchers, led by Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, cited the Jena 6 controversy in Louisiana and a subsequent spate of incidents involving... More »

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Department of Justice • Al Sharpton • Washington DC • hate crime • protests • civil rights • Jena Six

Harper Lee Awarded Medal of Freedom

Civil rights pioneer Hooks also receives highest civilian honor

Nov 6, 07 4:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Author Harper Lee and NAACP pioneer Benjamin Hooks yesterday received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, for their work for racial equality. Lee, 81, wrote the 1960 Pulitzer-winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird, which challenged racism and was made into a powerful movie featuring Gregory Peck. The... More »

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Tennessee • civil rights • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf • Presidential Medal of Freedom • Harper Lee • Benjamin Hooks • To Kill A Mockingbird • NAACP • civil rights movement

Label Doesn't Fit to a T

Salon pundit ponders paradox of gay-rights bill threatened by inclusion of trans

Oct 10, 07 3:46 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Congress • gay rights • homosexuality • transgender • civil rights • ENDA

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

Move could hasten release of key player in Louisiana race case

Sep 27, 07 4:39 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Civil Rights Icons Return to Little Rock

Nine trailblazers observe 50th anniversary of Central High desegregation

Sep 25, 07 3:49 PM CDT
(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,... More »

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Arkansas • Bill Clinton • civil rights • Little Rock Nine • Carlotta Walls Lanier • Mike Ross • civil rights movement

50K Rally to Support 'Jena Six'

Huge crowds arrive in tiny town to protest trial of black students

Sep 20, 07 12:30 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Flip-Floppers See Light—Or Just Want Job

Romney and Kerry stand in long line of political mind-changing

Sep 18, 07 8:26 AM CDT
(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”... More »

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

School Segregation Is Up

Black and Latino children flood public schools, risk receiving "separate and inferior" educations

Aug 30, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Ex-Klansman Gets 3 Life Terms for
1964 Murders

72-year-old cancer patient says he'll appeal

Aug 24, 07 3:45 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

(Newser) - After pleading guilty, five former security officials in South Africa received suspended jail sentences today for their involvement in a bizarre, apartheid-era murder plot. Onetime law and order minister Adriaan Volk and four others admitted they had tried to kill Frank Chikane, a priest and anti-apartheid activist, in 1989 by... More »

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murder • hate crime • South Africa • trial • racism • civil rights • apartheid • Adriaan Volk • Frank Chikane

Oliver Hill,
Civil Rights Crusader, Dies

Virginia lawyer played key role in Brown v. Board of Education

Aug 6, 07 3:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Oliver Hill, a Virginia civil rights crusader whose work contributed to the Brown v. Board of Education decision against school segregation, died yesterday at 100. Described as "last lion of the civil-rights movement," Hill was a survivor of D-Day's Omaha Beach landing, and close friends with Justice Thurgood... More »

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race • obituary • school • death • lawyer • civil rights • Thurgood Marshall • Oliver Hill • segregation • integration • US Supreme Court

Lynchings Re-enacted to Probe Cases

FBI uses ketchup and choreography to solve civil rights cold cases

Jul 27, 07 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Graphic re-enactments of lynchings, including ketchup-covered doll ‘fetuses’ ripped from ‘pregnant victims,’ were staged in a Georgia campaign to warm up some cold civil rights cases, CNN reports. Some groups have also offered private rewards, as local and national efforts converge in a desire to bring '60s-era... More »

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Congress • FBI • crime • murder • Georgia • lynching • re enactment • civil rights

Germany Weighs Civil Liberties Against Security

New world order prompts government, society to reevaluate

Jul 13, 07 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sensing a growing threat from Islamic terrorists, Germany's top security official is pushing for new measures to monitor suspects and deal with attacks, the Times reports. But the interior minister's moves have ignited a firestorm of controversy in a country overly familiar with authoritarian rule. Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed... More »

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Angela Merkel • Germany • counterterrorism • Wolfgang Schauble • civil rights

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