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• Beyond ‘Diversity’: New Creation and a Mestizo Vision

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 647
  “Integration” and “diversity” do not express God’s purpose for reconciliation deeply enough. What we need is a fresh paradigm that declares our new culture in Christ. A workshop last month in Cincinnati at the Christian Community Development Association conference (CCDA) confirmed my conviction…
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• Overshadowed By Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Catalyst Finally Recognized

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 628
  From the New York Times: On that supercharged day in 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., she rode her way into history books, credited with helping to ignite the civil rights movement. But there was another woman, named Claudette Colvin, who refused to be ...
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• Math literacy & social change

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 516
  The Young People’s Project uses Math Literacy as a tool to develop young leaders and organizers. In the same way that Ella Baker helped fashion a space for the students who sat-in to think and organize for themselves, the Algebra Project provided a space for YPP to grow and develop. Twelve years later, here we ...
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• Prediction Re Civil Rights “Cold Cases”

  
  Countenance Blog — Authority: 141
  AP : By SHELIA BYRD (AP) – 10 hours ago JACKSON, Miss. — Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers. Now, the agency is at a ...
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• CA: Fresno’s Robin McGehee Fights for Gay Marriage

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  College of the Sequoias speech instructor Robin McGehee sees herself as a product of the civil rights movement in her native South. So she was shocked and disturbed last year when officials at the Fresno Catholic school her son attends forced her to resign as president of the parent-teacher organization. ...
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• New Evidence to Act on in 1964 Klan Murder of James Chaney

  
  minor jive — Authority: 440
  New Evidence to Act on in 1964 Klan Murder of James Chaney : X-rays reveal that two bullets were not removed from James Chaney’s body during the autopsy after he, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were murdered by a gang of Klansmen in Neshoba County, MS, June 21 1964. James Chaney’s brother Ben has told the ...
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• New Evidence to Act on in 1964 Klan Murder of James Chaney

  
  Hungry Blues — Authority: 386
  X-rays reveal that two bullets were not removed from James Chaney’s body during the autopsy after he, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were murdered by a gang of Klansmen in Neshoba County, MS, June 21 1964. James Chaney’s brother Ben has told the Clarion Ledger’s Jerry Mitchell that the Chaeny family will ...
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• James Meredith

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 482
  James Meredith is famous for integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962. But he was always seen as an odd duck by other members of the civil rights movement. He wasnt really affiliated with any particular group. Instead, he just sort of did random things. His March Against Fear in 1966 was totally unorganized. ...
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• Washington Blade and Southern Voice close down

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Atlanta, Nov 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The gay newspaper Southern Voice along with Washington Blade has closed down. The employees arrived to work after the weekend and found that the doors were closed and a sign posted that said that the magazine was no longer in business.A notice posted at the Southern Voice office in ...
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• TX: Fort Worth Approves Transgender Protections

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Tory Van Fleet was one of the dozens of LGBT rights advocates who stood, smiling widely and applauding loudly, in the packed Fort Worth City Council chamber Tuesday night, Nov. 10, in the moments after the council voted 6-3 to add specific protections for transgender people to the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance. ...
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• Ann Donald on the Home and The Help

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 481
  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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• A ‘Big Tent’ in Dallas

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 647
  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…
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• Vikings and Pirates and Taxes, Oh My!

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 742
  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, ...
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• This is a Small World!

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 422
  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: 141
  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 ...
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• Recap of Monday’s Gay Marriage Hearing in Washington, DC

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  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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• Race, wealth, and homeownership

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 682
  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 ...
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• Survey Says: 49% of Americans Don’t Much Like Homosexuality

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 682
  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: 133
  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: 487
  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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