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Take a Stand: Give Your Female Character Something to Believe In

Annette Fix wrote 1 day ago: Don’t let your female characters be defined by weakness. Strong characters make history and en … more →

Tags: Writing Craft, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks, strong female characters, writing female characters

Racism/Sexism Paradox1 comment

Mankini Revolution wrote 1 day ago: Recently, Newsweek had a cover of Sarah Palin in short shorts, with the headline stating that she … more →

Tags: activism, Current Events, Feminism, feminist, sexism, palin, Equality, racism, palin newsweek cover

Five Words That Made a Difference2 comments

detew wrote 2 days ago: In 1968 I was 14 years old, and living in a suburb outside of Birmingham, Alabama, known as Rocky Ri … more →

Tags: God, Parenting, Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, Integrity, Birmingham, Rocky Ridge, Books

Little Rock Nine Member Speaks in Sudbury

andrewdsmith wrote 6 days ago: My department hosted an interesting speaker last night. The 2009 Angus Gilbert Lecture was given by … more →

Tags: Angus Gilbert Memorial Lecture, Laurentian University, Little Rock Nine, minnijean brown-trickey, Segregation

Rosa Parks not the first to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus

Brandy wrote 6 days ago: Is Claudette Colvin the real mother of the Civil Rights movement? In history classes around the worl … more →

Tags: History, Black History, Rosa Parks, SCLC, Claudette Colvin

What Does The Baby Boomers' Generation Have To Be Thankful For?1 comment

Ron Rogers wrote 1 week ago: Let's Give Peace A Chance! A Symbol From The Sixties! The Beatles in 1964 - The beginning of … more →

Tags: r2, Ron Rogers, Writing for learning, baby boomer generation, Hippies, jackson five, motown, sixties, st dominic high school

The Original Fables of Faubus: Charles Mingus and the Civil Rights Movement

musiqology wrote 1 week ago: Charles Mingus – The Original Fables of Faubus After Arkansas governor Orval Faubus decided to … more →

Tags: jazz, Charles Mingus, Protest

Prediction Re Civil Rights "Cold Cases"

countenance wrote 1 week ago: AP: By SHELIA BYRD (AP) – 10 hours ago JACKSON, Miss. — Over the last three years, the FBI scoured f … more →

Tags: History, Courts & Judiciary, Paranoia-Industrial Complex, Constitutional Integrity

Buzzing About the Bees

aegroove wrote 1 week ago: Kate Langenburg/A&E Groove Okay, so lately I have been a reading fiend. (Probably one of the mai … more →

Tags: Books, Entertainment, book, Sue Monk, sue monk kidd, Bees, BEE, beekeeping, mother daughter books

Good cover versions: Just my soul responding to another man's song

Alyx Vesey wrote 1 week ago: Last Saturday, Kristen and I were talking about the music history workshops we taught with some bad- … more →

Tags: Feminist Music Geeks Turn Their Headphones Up, '97 Bonnie and Clyde, Alyssa Woods, bumpy's lament, cat power, Christina Aguilera, cover songs, dirty projectors, Eminem

Crazy Like A Foxx ... Virginia Foxx Again Makes A Foolish And Insulting Statement

Sandy Gholston wrote 1 week ago: Leave it to Norh Carolina Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx to make yet another foolish and ins … more →

Tags: California, Civil Rights Act, Dennis Cardoza, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Jesse Helms, John Lewis, North Carolina, Virginia Foxx, Voting Rights Act

An Interview with Dr. Walter E. Williams2 comments

Bevan Sabo wrote 2 weeks ago: Free Market Mojo is proud to present an interview with Dr. Walter E. William, the John M. Olin Disti … more →

Tags: Individual Rights, Politics, Economics, Education, Health Care, Property Rights, poverty, interviews, Healthcare

Political Forces in the 1950s and 60s Set the Stage for Growth of National Education Policy

Amanda Davenport wrote 2 weeks ago: “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it wor … more →

Tags: Papers, Education, Anthropology & Sociology, Politics, obama, Race, No Child Left Behind, Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights

#41. Go to a book signing1 comment

courtneyavise wrote 2 weeks ago: On November 14th, I had the pleasure of attending an event where one of the greatest Civil Rights Pi … more →

Tags: 101 Things Related, Barack Obama, book signing, Congressman John Lewis, First African American President, Inc., phi beta sigma fraternity

Racial Re-thinking as President Obama Visits China

audiegrl wrote 2 weeks ago: Increasing diversity, born out of boom, forces Chinese to confront old prejudices Washington Post/Ke … more →

Tags: Culture, change, TV Shows, Geneology, Africa, Video[youtube], African-Americans, pop culture, Presidents

What can Palestinians learn from the American civil rights movement? Appealing to the Jewish conscience1 comment

azizabusarah wrote 2 weeks ago: WASHINGTON, DC – The struggle for civil rights, freedom and independence is not unique to the … more →

Tags: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Op-Eds, "two-states solution", Israel, jewish conscience, Martin Luther King, non-violence, Palestine, Peace Movement

Tea Party Express at Civil Rights District in Birmingham Alabama--We Should Be Outraged9 comments

audiegrl wrote 3 weeks ago: Posted by Guest Contributor alpolitics from Progressive Electorate Today the Tea Party Express rolle … more →

Tags: Politics, Republicans, partisan politics, Birmingham, AL, Street, obama, party, James, Baptist

Twenty years ago today...1 comment

Noelle McAfee wrote 3 weeks ago: It was twenty years ago today that….  How do you finish that sentence?  There are plenty obvio … more →

Tags: Berlin Wall, civic forum, Civil Society, Harry Boyte, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Slavoj Zizek, Vaclav Havel

The Color of Juvenile Crime in St. Louis City: Almost Monochrome

countenance wrote 3 weeks ago: Hank Thompson, St. Louis black talk radio’s avuncular voice of erudition, heard from a promine … more →

Tags: Black Crime, Courts & Judiciary, Education, Equality & Egalitarianism, Racial Differences, St. Louis Local


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