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• in TV
  Soundtrack for a Revolution Comes to PBS, May 9
  The story of the American Civil Rights Movement told through its powerful music: SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION.
  by missbobetier / on May 5, 2011
• in Politics
  Behind the Dream:The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly
  MLK and JFK both had to deal with questions over who actually wrote their speeches.
  by fcetier / on Feb 6, 2011
• in Film
  Soundtrack for a Revolution Examines the Role of Music in the Civil Rights Movement
  “We ain’t gonna let nobody turn us around. “ --Martin Luther King, Jr.
  by missbobetier / on Oct 13, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “civil rights movement”

 

• Tip-Off for 5/10/13 (featuring Bob Marley): Malcolm Shabazz (El Hajj Malcolm el Shabazz), the grandson of Malcolm X is murdered in Mexico

  
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  (Before It’s News) The resemblance between Malcolm Shabazz and his grandfather are strikingly similar. Malcolm Shabazz, the first male descendant of Malcolm X was killed in what is being called a robbery attempt in Mexico. Details surrounding his death are still unconfirmed. Shabazz was 28. Malcolm ...
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• An Ala. banner & its link to Black Panthers Party

  
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  The green and white banner was attached to what looked like a “Black Panthers” wall at the auction house. It blended into the arrangement of posters and photographs of party notables, set apart only slightly by the figure of a black panther striding across its center. I swept my eyes over the display, but ...
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• You Are The Hope… “If there is hope, you are it. You are motivated to find truth. You can think outside the box. You can see through propaganda. You are the remnant with the common sense that once was a common American virtue.” | republicrising

  
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  If there is hope, you are it. You are motivated to find truth. You can think outside the box. You can see through propaganda. You are the remnant with the common sense that once was a common American virtue. You come to this site, because you get explanations that are not agenda-driven, that are not [...]
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• What Does Injustice Look Like?

  
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  This past week marked the 50 th anniversary of the Children’s Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama.  By many accounts it was the tipping point in generating national public support for the civil rights movement, and much of that effect is often attributed to the national news reports that showed Birmingham police ...
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• The Cold War Minute for May 3

  
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  BerlinBrigade.com presents The Cold War Minute: May 3 edition. In this episode, we talk about Japanese Constitution, Supreme Court, General Douglas MacArthur, North Pole, American Civil Rights Movement You can also download the todays episode of The Cold War Minute by right clicking and saving here for May 3 ...
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• Is Jason Collins Coming Out As Gay In Sports Illustrated Merely A Tool For A Much Bigger Agenda?

  
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  When I heard that President Obama gave N.B.A. Player Jason Collins a phone call Monday congratulating him and expressing his support after publicly announcing that he is gay, I knew that it would set off some very intense controversy on many levels especially after our President stated that he was "impressed by his ...
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• “We Shall Overcome” Racial Injustice: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement

  
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  By Joan Witherspoon Norris, Director of Social Justice, and Jacob Smith, Donor Relations Specialist YWCA of Central Alabama This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama was at the … Continue reading →
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• Stereotypes of Black Violence … and Photography Playing with Your Head: That Karales Photo at Lens Blog

  
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  One thing Lens Blog and Lightbox have distinguished themselves for is unearthing historical photo archives. The latest gem at the NYT is a set of photos of Martin Luther King and his family and activity surrounding the March on Selma by photographer James Karales. Karales’ images can be unusually intimate, daring, ...
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• Learning to Name and See All of Lifes Colors

  
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  The names of colors--as illustrated in America by the Crayola folks--are not only the mirror but the lamp of our world: they’ve changed their color-names over the years to reflect various cultural shifts. When the crayon “Flesh” was created in 1949, nobody seemed to blink their eyelids. Then along came the Civil ...
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• Dr. Kings fight for economic justice--Taylor Branch and James Cone

  
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  Taylor Branchs books about the American Civil Rights Movement are classics.  I was fortunate enough to sit in the classroom during seminary with James Cone.  Both men command our attention, especially today.  Watch and then react. Posted on www.UrbanDaily.org
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• The South, still ruled by the handful

  
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  As the Souths hard-right pols block expanding Medicaid to a population in need, they show that civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamers description of the regions government as "with the handful, for the handful, by the handful" remains true today. read more
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• Mississippi journalist speaks at UAB about Ku Klux Klan, Civil Rights Movement cold cases

  
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  View full size Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., spoke to UAB students about his work uncovering racially motivated murders during the 1960s on Thursday, April 18, 2013. (Jon Reed/jreed@al.com) BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- When...
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• Randal Maurice Jelks: Remembering “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

  
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  We welcome a guest post today from Randal Maurice Jelks, author of Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography . Martin Luther King Jr. called Mays his “spiritual and intellectual father.” In the following post, Jelks turns to one of King’s most important statements, the “Letter from a ...
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• FILM / Dave Zirin : 42 is Jackie Robinsons Bitter Pill

  
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  A Review of 42:Jackie Robinsons bitter pillThis was a man tortured by the fact that his own experience was used as a cudgel against building a public, fighting movement against racial injustice.By Dave Zirin / The Rag Blog / April 17, 2013See "Dave Zirin Writes from the Busy Intersection of Sports and Politics" by ...
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• Jonathan Rieder: Dr. King’s Righteous Fury

  
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  Jonathan Rieder is a professor of sociology at Barnard College and the author of “Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation.” CHRIS ROCK caused a stir last Fourth of July when he tweeted, “Happy white peoples independence day the slaves ...
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• Bob Feldman : Civil Rights, SDS, and Student Activism in Austin, Texas, 1954-1973

  
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  Massive march against the War in Vietnam, Austin, Texas, circa 1969. Image from The Rag Blog.The hidden history of TexasPart 13: 1954-1973/2 -- Student Activism and the Anti-War Movement at the University of TexasBy Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / April 17, 2013 [This is the second section of Part 13 of Bob Feldmans Rag ...
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• 50 YEARS - LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL

  
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  Excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jrs response to a letter from fellow clergy who opposed the civil rights protests, suggesting that the actions were "unwise and untimely". We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor ; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ...
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• A.P.F. Raise Some Dough Event / Letter From Birmingham Jail 50th Anniversary

  
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  Alabama Phoenix Festival Raise Some Dough Event at Slice Pizza & Brew Tonight, the Alabama Phoenix Festival is hosting a special event to raise money for   Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund, Inc.   You will also get a chance to learn what will be in the Alabama Phoenix Festival this year which takes ...
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• Illuminative Unity Amid Darkness

  
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  In New York, messages of hope and encouragement were projected along the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The messages, photos of which were featured on blogs across the Web, read “Brooklyn Loves New York” and a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do ...
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• Letter From Birmingham City Jail 50th Anniversary

  
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  TransGriot Note: Today is the 50th anniversary of the day that the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jrs penned his Letter From Birmingham City Jail on scraps of paper given to him by a janitor, notes written on the margins of a newspaper, and later a legal pad given to him by SCLC attorneys to be compiled at movement ...
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