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Haley Barbour’s Raid on Historical Memory

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 21. Dec, 2010 in breaking news, civil rights movement, election, mississippi, politics, race and racism, voting rights

(An update follows this post.) Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is at it again. Seems like every time Barbour pops up in the news these days he’s busy whitewashing Mississippi’s racist past. The latest came my way yesterday via Digby and Joan McCarter at Kos. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, Barbour had the audacity [...]

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Vote!

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 02. Nov, 2010 in civil rights, election, photo, voting rights

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Dumbshittery Stops Right Here (Vote!)

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 01. Nov, 2010 in civil rights, election, race and racism, video, voting rights

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Jay Smooth Nails It

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 29. Nov, 2008 in election, politics, race and racism

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The Sting of Victory

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 14. Nov, 2008 in civil rights, civil rights movement, election, friends, glbt, politics, race and racism

By Amanda Cary As a lifelong New Englander, I spent the final days of this election season in California. On the evening of November 5, after searching every newsstand for a newspaper to remember the historic day that came before, I finally found a copy of the San Jose Mercury Times. The two headlines read: [...]

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Eyes on the Prize

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 10. Nov, 2008 in civil rights, election, friends, glbt, human rights, podcast, politics, race and racism, Weblogs, women and feminism

This is Nicole. She is one of the many talented photographers whose work I follow on flickr. The same night that the country voted for a Black president, majorities of voters voted against gay families and the rights of gay people in California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas. Nicole is angry and so am I. We [...]

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Election Night in Chicago

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 09. Nov, 2008 in election, friends

By Rebecca Thal We were way back in the crowd, on a patch of the lawn where it was possible to see the jumbotron only from tiptoe, and completely impossible to see the stage. So, when my flexed toes finally gave out, while Barack Obama’s words resonated around us, I kept myself occupied by looking [...]

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Poll Worker

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 09. Nov, 2008 in election, photo

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It’s a New Day

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 08. Nov, 2008 in election, Music, race and racism

Have you seen the new one from will.i.am yet?

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Barack Obama for the Generations

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 07. Nov, 2008 in civil rights movement, class and poverty, election, friends, hungry blues, john due, labor movement, politics, race and racism, southwest ms, women and feminism

Our election of Barack Obama to be President of the United States of America has been filling me with overwhelming emotions. As it has been doing for so many people. It has been hard to put any of this into words. For me it begins with my being a child of the Civil Rights Movement. [...]

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