Tag: civil
group name: renewedactivist
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December 04, 2007 05:57 PM EST --
In a recent column by Jason Whitlock, FoxSports.com, he pulls the sheets off a tragic epic being played out in the black family - Black on Black crime. Mr. whitlock, inspired by the murder . . . more
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January 01, 2008 12:53 PM EST --
Dozens of gay and lesbian couples entered into civil unions in New Hampshire in the early moments of New Year's Day.
"We've been together 20 years; we've been waiting for this . . . more
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October 06, 2008 06:47 PM EDT --
Because both presidential candidates are U.S. Senators, their positions on many issues are public record. Last week, I examined some of John McCain's votes on certain key issues. This week, we look . . . more
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April 28, 2008 03:41 PM EDT --
Employees of the Texas A&M University System were alarmed last week to discover a new regulation that allows them to be fired after an arrest, whether it results in a conviction or not. The rule requires . . . more
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September 26, 2006 09:34 AM EDT --
I agree the "freedom of speech" is as American as the Bill of Rights. I agree that stating your beliefs without fear of persecution is what makes this country great. However, crossing . . . more
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December 16, 2006 06:36 PM EST --
Right. I've had just about enough of the right's insinuations that there is something evil and anti-Christian about the ACLU.
The ACLU is perhaps the most profoundly patriotic organization I have . . . more
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June 27, 2007 11:44 PM EDT --
I live near Andersonville Georgia. Andersonville is full of echos, in the prison and in the cemetery you can hear echos. The echos of 45,000 prisoners who were at Andersonville from February 1864 . . . more
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June 22, 2006 07:50 AM EDT --
On August 6, 1964 - less than one month after LBJ signed the civil rights act - three civil rights workers were murdered in Sandtown, Mississippi.
Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman had . . . more
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April 07, 2008 01:20 AM EDT --
Men like to fight. It's in their genes. This perhaps explains why wars have been a fact of life since the dawn of civilization. Throughout most of history, the womenfolk have had no option . . . more
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July 05, 2007 06:35 PM EDT --
In 1960, my father and I bet a dime on the Presidential election. He was sure that Nixon would win, and I knew that John F. Kennedy was the ticket. I won the dime. I was five . . . more
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April 21, 2007 12:00 AM EDT --
In the spring of 1964, I was a senior at Queens College in New York City, an English major with an unmapped future and unable to take my situation seriously despite the growing likelihood that . . . more
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May 29, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
The first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619.
Kunte Kinte, his daughter Kizzy, and her son George noticed that every time the whites "massas" became frightened--most likely by the threat . . . more
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April 04, 2008 03:37 PM EDT --
Even though today, April 4th, 2008 is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, I would like to take this opportunity to look at a few of the events that led up to that . . . more
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August 13, 2007 12:33 PM EDT --
Before Rosa Parks, there was Irene Morgan Kirkaldy. On a hot July morning in 1944, Mrs. Kirkaldy had just suffered a miscarriage, and she needed to sit down for the Greyhound Bus ride from Gloucester, . . . more
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November 24, 2007 01:00 AM EST --
"All these thousands of men. Many of them not much more than boys. Each one of them some mothers' son, some sisters' brother, some daughters' father. Each one of them a whole person . . . more
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December 16, 2006 01:35 AM EST --
If you were to ask a panel of experts if they considered a nation that has regular elections, elections whose results have a direct impact on the formulation of foreign and domestic policy if that nation . . . more
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May 16, 2006 02:01 AM EDT --
On May 2, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Reverend Abernathy and Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth lead a protest march in Birmingham, Alabama.
At that time, Birmingham had been one of the most racially segregated . . . more
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May 04, 2008 08:09 AM EDT --
On September 15, 1963, Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14) and Carole Robertson (14) were in Sunday School at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, when . . . more
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November 10, 2007 09:08 AM EST --
The Government Got All of AT&T's Internet and Voice Traffic
ALICE TURNER - eFluxMedia. com
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_The_Government_Got_All_of_ATTs_Internet_and_Voice_Traffic_10423.html . . . more
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March 07, 2008 05:53 AM EST --
Most anyone's first reaction concerning the government's acquisition of additional powers is that these laws and executive orders must be for our own protection.
The government - our government . . . more
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