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Peoples Temple and Reverend Jim Jones

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 15. Nov, 2008 in civil rights movement, friends, human rights, john due, race and racism

By John Dorsey Due, Jr. November 18, 2008 The nation will pause and reflect on the massive “Revolutionary Kool Aid Suicide” of almost a 1000 Americans in their Jonestown refuge in Guyana and the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan, thirty years ago, on November 18, 1978. This could be my final ten year acknowledgment of [...]

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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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What’s Wrong with Voter ID

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 29. Apr, 2008 in race and racism, voting rights

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 [...]

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