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• Freedom Form No. 2 by Daniel Johnson

  
  Start Seeing Art — Authority: 107
  Created by Daniel Johnson in 1970, Freedom Form No. 2 is located in Martin Luther King Park in Minneapolis. The abstract sculpture is two perpendicular sheets of metal with curving cut outs where they would have intersected.
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• The History of Valentine’s Day

  
  Carrie and Danielle — Authority: 439
  Like many holidays we celebrate, we don’t really know how Valentine’s Day began. We know it’s a day to celebrate love, and we know that the consumer market loves its overpriced candy and flowers, but what was the original purpose of V-Day, and where did it begin? I was interested, so I took some time to find ...
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• Ann Donald on the Home and The Help

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 543
  Kalk Bay Books ‘ Ann Donald sees value for all South Africans in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help - winner of the Boeke Prize - a story of black and white domestic relationships: From the first page, the world around me ceased to exist - until after the sun had gone down 12 hours later. My first thought after ...
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• Council Call-in audio – 11/11/2009

  
  The AroundFortWayne Blog — Authority: 445
  Last night’s Council Call-in show featured Councilman Mitch Harper and his guest, Geoff Paddock, Executive Director of the Headwaters Park Alliance.
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• Lane changes on MLK Bridge were not needed

  
  Letters to the Editor — Authority: 141
  I think that our “Nanny Government” over  here in Illinois spent way too much money for shoddy work on a project that was highly unnecessary.  I drive that bridge regularly and realize it is narrow, however the dozen or so…
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• Courageous Leadership

  
  Dreamer + Realist — Authority: 116
  Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Expediency asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it ...
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• The Weight of Age

  
  Fifty is the New... — Authority: 107
  Teddy, Bobby and John Kennedy, 1962 Connie Stetson reflects on what shaped her views of democracy and what fuels her hope today. With the passing of Teddy Kennedy, aside from feeling real grief at his loss, I am feeling, profoundly, the weight of my age. Not my chronological age, I just turned 58, but the age ...
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• Survey Finds Majority of Americans Are Living with an Open Heart

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  Despite the economic uncertainty, nearly nine out of 10 Americans say they are living with an Open Heart – the philosophy of keeping your heart open, despite adversity, thereby resulting in something positive. According to a nationwide survey commissioned by Kay Jewelers, the issues most frequently mentioned as ...
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• HOPE Global Spokesperson Ambassador Andrew Young Gets Facebook

  
  Operation HOPE Blog — Authority: 103
  HOPE’s own Global Spokesman, Ambassador Andrew Young has created an official “Friends of Andrew Young” page on Facebook. No stranger to the social networking Ambassador Young’s page will be updated daily through the Andrew Young Foundation, to keep up with what’s new. ...
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• The People Speak College Tour: Boston University

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 607
  Editor’s Note: This post is by Antonia Lassar, a student at Boston University who attended The People Speak College tour event on her campus last week. To my right is a boy in the most vivid red denim shirt I have ever seen. (Confession: I have never actually seen a red denim shirt before, regardless of the ...
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• IN PICTURES: A drive through Anacostia via Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.

  
  Congress Heights on the Rise — Authority: 139
  WARD 8 GEOGRAPHY LESSON OF THE DAY: Anacostia(and Historic Anacostia) like Congress Heights is a neighborhood within Ward 8. Anacostia is not the same as Ward 8. Anacostia and Ward 8 arent interchangeable.Anacostia at MLK and Good HopeGoing up Martin Luther King Jr. AveFireside Jamacian GrillThe Big Chair!New ...
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• The Impossible has Happened

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 121
  Yes, thats right the Impossible has happened.   Where were you 20 years ago today?  In Germany and throughout Europe and North America, the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has been celebrated today. On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill used the phrase the "Iron Curtain" in a speech in Westminster ...
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• Happy Barack Obama Day!!

  
  Holiday Rap - Holidays on the Net Holiday Blog — Authority: 144
  Did you know its “Happy Barack Obama Day?” Well it is if you live in the tiny county of Perry County, Alabama! It seems that the Perry County Commission has passed a law observing the second Monday in November as “Barack Obama Day.” Albert Turner Jr., the sponsoring commissioner, said the holiday is meant ...
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• WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON?

  
  The Big Read Blog — Authority: 119
  November 9, 2009 Washington, DC Cabinet card of Count Leo Tolstoy by Sass, Moscow. Photo from Library of Congress Collection , George Kennan Papers. Working on some research for the blog this morning, I was surprised to discover that Leo Tolstoy’s late-in-life spirituality greatly influenced both Mahatma ...
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• On The Death of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 562
  Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the great idealists of his time. He dreamt of racial congregation for not just blacks, but for all races.  Robert F. Kennedy took a moment during his campaign to remember Martin Luther King Jr., to remember his life and ideas and to spread them once more to the world. Even though ...
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• The Montgomery Bus Boycott and My Father

  
  educating alice — Authority: 494
  Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1922, my father Lewis J. Edinger fled with his mother to America at the age of fourteen; his father chose to stay, hoping to ride things out, but was deported and killed. Years later, as a newly minted PhD, my father took whatever jobs he could find; one of those was in Montgomery, ...
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• Recap of Monday’s Gay Marriage Hearing in Washington, DC

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  THE FIVE-HOUR hearing last Monday before the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics seemed interminable, and the arguments from proponents of the so-called Marriage Initiative ranged from the absurd to the offensive to the pathetic. The question before the board was whether a proposal by a Maryland pastor to deny gay ...
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• Karan Singh honoured by New York varsity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  New York, Nov 7 (IANS) Karan Singh, president, Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR), was conferred with an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters by the State University of New York here Saturday.“As an internationally respected humanitarian and one of the most learned individuals of modern times, you have a ...
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• Bernice King Elected SCLC President

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 532
  Rev. Bernice King, youngest daughter of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, it was announced this past Friday.Bernice King was selected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King was elected over Arkansas Appeals Court Judge ...
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• Crossing the Lines: A White Reporter’s View of the Civil Rights Movement

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 640
  In Crossing the Lines: A Novel , author Richard Doster enabled me to enter the world of Jack Hall, an idealistic white reporter based in the South during the late 1950s who struggled between his need to report the truth with…
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