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• A ‘Big Tent’ in Dallas

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 638
  For those who came to the Justice Revival ’s free opening night program (featuring former United Methodist District Superintendent and Texas State House Rep. Dr. Zan Holmes and Latin Grammy-winning gospel musician Jaci Velasquez) the spirit of a “Big Tent” was…
  8 hours ago

• Vikings and Pirates and Taxes, Oh My!

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Today’s episode of “ Hagar the Horrible ” could be an epigraph for the new Fall 2009 issue of Cato Journal . This issue includes Greek economists Michael Mitsopoulos and Theodore Pelagidis on “Vikings in Greece: Kleptocratic Interest Groups in a Closed, Rent-Seeking Economy” as well as Peter Leeson, ...
  9 hours ago

• This is a Small World!

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 424
  This great clip of a portion of a sermon by Dr. S.M. Lockridge (1913-2000) has resurfaced over the past week. It is a thrilling conclusion by one of the masters of preaching. Lockridge, who pastored Calvary Baptist Church for 40 years (1953-1993), was also the first President of the National Missionary Baptist ...
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• The Color of Juvenile Crime in St. Louis City: Almost Monochrome

  
  Countenance Blog — Authority: 134
  Hank Thompson, St. Louis black talk radio’s avuncular voice of erudition, heard from a prominent St. Louis City circuit juvenile court judge that 99% of all juvenile offenders in his court are black.  Mr. Thompson doesn’t like this, and, drawing the only conclusion that a good racial egalitarian can, thinks that ...
  3 days ago

• Recap of Monday’s Gay Marriage Hearing in Washington, DC

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 453
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Race, wealth, and homeownership

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 689
  R eading Jason Kuznicki’s article in the latest issue of Cato Journal , I was struck by the similarities between his historical analysis and a post Jamelle wrote a few months ago. First, here’s Jamelle (emphasis mine): For what it’s worth, I don’t expect that to change; if we acknowledge the federal ...
  6 days ago

• Survey Says: 49% of Americans Don’t Much Like Homosexuality

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 689
  T his exchange between  Rod Dreher and  Ta-Nehisi Coates on the basis of opposition to same-sex marriage is interesting, if only because it provides another striking example of how ones identity has an incredible impact on how one views the world and other human beings.  That is, it’s pretty easy to believe ...
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• Media advisory from the Canadian Civil Rights Movement

  
  TNT - TRUTH ... not TASERS — Authority: 134
  Vancouver, November 4, 2009 Canadian Civil Rights Movement The Canadian Civil Rights Movement suggests that the suit being brought by Cst. Kwesi Millington, against the CBC, is a desperate and cynical ploy similar to the legal action and current appeal challenging the authority of the Braidwood Commission. It is not ...
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• A Tribute to Odetta Holmes

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 442
  Dubbed the “Queen of American folk music” by Martin Luther King Jr in 1961, Odetta Holmes was one of the most influential recording artists of the 20th century and an important voice of the Civil Rights Movement. A powerhouse vocalist who toured well into her 70s, often performing from a wheelchair in later years, ...
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• The Other Rainbow Coalition

  
  Blackinformant.com - African-American culture, news commentary, politics — Authority: 585
  In the world of politics, “racism” is less of a threat to the American voter and more of a weapon to cower the competition. If there is a common goal, in the political world you people on opposite sides of the spectrum coming together to make it happen. We call it “Bipartisanship”. While at times this could be ...
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• Bernice King elected SCLC President

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 424
  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 ...
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• Gates and Crowley Beer Summit II

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 661
  Professor Henry Louis Gates and Sergeant James Crowley apparently enjoyed their beer summit with the president so much that they’ve decided to have another round .  Minus the president . In a setting a tad less formal, with no president or national press on hand, the Harvard professor and the Cambridge cop at ...
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• Dick J. Reavis : SDS and the Great Divide

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 479
  Image from Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History.Today’s Red Book and the demise of SDSNobody present had repudiated Leftism, but everyone seemed to have reached a consensus that the heedlessness of youth had been our common flaw.By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / October 29, 2009A few years ago, the ...
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• Maryland Black Family Alliance Launches Its Film, “Maryland Voices of Equality”

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 453
  On October 22, The Maryland Black Family Alliance (MBFA), a coalition of straight African- American leaders who advocate for the rights of the African American LGBT community, premiered their new film, Maryland Voices of Equality . The documentary, directed by noted filmmaker Kalima Young, aims at educating the ...
  2 weeks ago

• No Gay Civil Rights Movement Until The African American One Is Done?

  
  The New Civil Rights Movement — Authority: 425
  A friend of mine asked me this question via Google chat tonight: “What is your response to the comment that calling the gay rights movement “the new civil rights movement” makes it seem as if all racial issues have been solved and we have moved on?” I responded: “I’ve not heard it put that way ...
  2 weeks ago

• Confronting Urban Violence with Jesus’ Nonviolence

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 638
  This morning as I was running on the treadmill, I was also watching CNN. A story came on about a shooting in Washington, D.C. The police chief was speaking, with the mayor of D.C looking on. She stated, “people are…
  2 weeks ago

• Mad Men’s Episode 11: Three Cheers for Joan

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Last night’s Mad Men, entitled “The Gypsy and The Hobo,” was what I’ve been waiting for all season. Thus far this season of Mad Men has been a slow slow boil and last night many of the pieces (that thus far seemed kind of boring) finally squeaked into place.  But instead of going into everything (like all ...
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• Global day for climate action

  
  @ltaCITIES | PQ: The People Quotient — Authority: 126
  "My mother was a teacher in a little school, and she believed in freedom and equality for people, and did not have the notion that we were supposed to live as we did, under legally enforced racial segregation. She didnt believe in it." - Rosa Parks | @ltaLINK Global day for climate action ...
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• Have I rightly discovered a connection between Barack Obama Senior and the Sidney Poitier character in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 123
  Yesterday at Facebook, I posted this with the caption: “Guess who came to dinner? A thoughtful portrait of perhaps the most influential graduate student of the late 20th Century….” Then today I made this ...
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• Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner: This Season’s About Change

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Mad Mens Matthew Weiner talks civil rights and the American Dream.
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