The US Supreme Court has hammered another nail in the coffin of the voting rights protections my father and many, many others risked their lives to establish for all Americans. (Why do I say “another” nail? See the related links at the end of this post.)
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter identification law […]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
I missed this fascinating article by David Sirota when it came out a couple of weeks ago, explaining why and how race matters in Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign against Barrack Obama.
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Since at least the South Carolina primary, the Clinton campaign’s message has been stripped of its poll-tested nuance and become a rather […]
By Marsha Joyner
Did Martin die in vain on that fateful day of April 4, 1968? What has transpired in these 40 years with respect to King’s dream? There are several events in the Bible where the number 40 is of paramount importance—can any of them be related to our struggles these past 40 years? Rain […]
Also filed in civil rights movement, election, friends, marsha joyner, politics, women and feminism
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Tagged barack obama, hate groups, hillary clinton, iraq, lorraine motel, martin luther king jr, memphis, sexism, tennessee, war
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I’ve uploaded to scribd.com the complete PDF version my article in the March/April issue of ColorLines Magazine, “The Legacy of a Murder,” about the 1959 murder of Samuel O’Quinn in Centreville, MS. You can read it in the handy viewer, embedded in this post, or you can go to the article’s page on Scribd and […]
Also filed in civil rights movement, politics, publication, southwest ms
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Tagged centreville ms, emmett till unsolved civil rights crime act, john lewis, medgar evers, murder, naacp, racial violence, samuel o'quinn, wilkinson county
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In doing my work on racial violence in Southwest Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s, it is exciting to get to know some of the other people doing similar work.
Syracuse University College of Law Professors Janice McDonald and Paula C. Johnson direct the Cold Case Justice Initiative, which has been playing a role in the […]
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Tagged concordi sentinel, ferriday la, frank morris, janis mcdonald, ku klux klan, natchez ms, paula johnson, syracuse, syracuse university college of law
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The week before I was going to head to New Orleans for this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference one of my twitter friends who was also going to NTC pointed to Eboo Patel’s Washington Post blog post about post-Katrina recovery in New Orleans.
Patel catalogs the devastation pretty well:
My friend Alycia drove me through the lower 9th […]
Also filed in children, civil rights, economic policy, education, katrina, louisiana, nola
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Tagged bill quigley, charter schools, discrimination, eboo patel, inequality, new orleans, privatization
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My latest article, about the 1959 racial murder of Samuel O’Quinn in Centreville , MS, was published today in Colorlines Magazine. The article is not yet available online, so here’s a teaser for you until I have a link to the whole thing.
The Legacy of a Murder
Racial killings from the civil rights era still haunt […]
Friday, February 29, 2008
A lack of time and nothing more to add lead me to give you this one whole cloth, by dnA over at his excellent blog, Too Sense.
Anger over anti-Semitism on the American Right, when coming from the Goyim, has only to do with the fact that the vast majority of American Jews are white. It’s […]
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Great clip from yesterday’s State of the Black Union footage in NOLA (via Baratunde):
If you know some of my other work, you’ll know why I love Gregory’s quote from way back:
“If these Mississippi white Klansmen, who do not know how to plan crimes, who are ignorant, illiterate bastards, can completely baffle our FBI, what are […]
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Bad government has been good business during the Bush administration. In 1999, nine companies had federal homeland security contracts. Today the total is over 33,000. “Much of what we’ve seen touted by vendors after 9/11,” says security consultant Doug Laird, “is nothing more than a sales force trying to use 9/11 as the hype to […]
Also filed in breaking news, civil liberties, class and poverty, human rights, immigrants, labor movement, politics
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Tagged , argentina, coca cola, columbia, domestic spying, fbi, ford, haliburton, infragard, klan, martial law
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
I’ve posted a couple of items in the past about the movement to stop the white corporate takeover of the Lorraine Motel Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. The tireless work of local activists, civil rights veterans, and area civil rights groups has led to the formation of the Lorraine Motel Civil Rights Museum Community Oversight […]
Friday, February 15, 2008
(h/t Ampersand.)
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
If you are like me, and you struggle to find full throated enthusiasm for any of the Democratic candidates, I want to encourage you vote and to vote for Barack Obama.
In my most cynical moments I fear that there is little difference between Obama and Clinton and that neither will be a progressive President.
I’ve been […]
I mean Barack Obama …
h/t to Brandon.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has approved MS Governor Haley Barbour’s plan to divert $600 of Federal Community Development Block Grant funds from low-income housing recovery to a Port Expansion Plan in Gulfport.
In his letter to Gov. Haley Barbour, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that although he’s concerned about using the housing money […]
Also filed in MS Gulf Coast, Weblogs, breaking news, class and poverty, environmental justice, friends, human rights, katrina
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Tagged alphonso jackson, cdbg, fema, gulfport, haley barbour, hud, katrina, mississippi
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