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Obama awards medals to girls killed in '63 church bombing
Reuters(Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed a bill into law on Friday granting the United States' highest civilian honor to four black girls killed in a civil rights-era church bombing that shocked the nation in 1963. Congress awarded the Congressional...Tags: Human Interest, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Ku Klux Klan, Terri Sewell
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Julian Bond: Race relations progress still has long way to go
I have always suspected racists didn't like being called out for their racism. Now I have proof. When I told MSNBC's Thomas Roberts on May 14th that the tea party was "the Taliban wing of American politics", a firestorm erupted. Arguing the IRS was...Tags: The Washington Post, Republican Party, Civil Rights, NAACP, Justice and Rights
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Lawmakers, economists spar over 'wasteful' US mortgage tax break
ReutersBy Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - The popular U.S. tax deduction for mortgage interest is wasteful and does little to spur home ownership, economists from across the political spectrum said at a congressional hearing on Thursday, but many...Tags: Taxation, Justice System, Real Estate Buyers, Services and Shopping, Government
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House votes to honor victims of 1963 Birmingham church bombing
WASHINGTON -- On this year’s 50th anniversary of a deadly church bombing that helped spur passage of landmark civil rights legislation, the House voted Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to four black girls killed in the...
Tags: Human Interest, Prisons, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Justice System
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Body of openly gay mayoral candidate found in Mississippi
A person of interest is being held in the death of an openly gay candidate running for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., officials said on Thursday. The person being held has not been charged, Will Rooker, a spokesman for the Coahoma County sheriff’s...
Tags: Chuck Espy, Elections, Barack Obama, Politics
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No, Martin Luther King would not have endorsed Gun Appreciation Day
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Rush Limbaugh, Henry Ford, Civil Rights, Shootings
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Rush to the defense? Not so fast
Dear David from Georgia: I want to thank you for the email you sent last week. It made me laugh out loud. It seems you were unhappy I took a shot at Rush Limbaugh a few days back. Limbaugh had argued that John Lewis might have avoided having his skull...
Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Hospitals and Clinics, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Human Rights, Health and Medical Professionals
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Calling out bugnut idiocy
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Rush Limbaugh, Henry Ford, Civil Rights, Shootings
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Response to those rewriting black history: No
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Rush Limbaugh, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry Ford, The Miami Herald
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Column: Calling out bugnut idiocy
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. “If a lot of African-Americans back in the ’60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?” he said recently on his...Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Entertainment Events, Martin Luther King Jr., Rush Limbaugh
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Disarm the filibuster
On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate will return to some semblance of a functioning legislative body. That day a majority of senators could vote to eliminate Rule XXII, which authorizes the notorious filibuster. Article 1, Section 6 of the...
Tags: Hank Johnson, Republican Party, Jeff Merkley, Martin T. Heinrich, Democratic Party
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Liberal obsession with race is growing old
When will liberals stop living in the past? Specifically, when will they accept that they aren't all that stands between a wonderful, tolerant America and Jim Crow? I was in the room when, during the Democratic National Convention, civil rights hero...
Tags: The Washington Post, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Condoleezza Rice, Republican Party, Civil Rights
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