Civil Rights
November 12, 2009
- The agenda In Birmingham they love the governor And we all did what we could do Now Watergate does not bother me Does your conscience bother you, now tell the truth? —"Sweet Home Alabama,” sung by Lynyrd Skynyrd It was the late summer of 1963. Everybody had an agenda. In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy had an agenda. Dr. Martin ...
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October 14, 2009
- In the interest of full disclosure, I have long admired Elaine Elinson, co-author with Stan Yogi of Wherever There's A Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California (Heyday Books, 2009, $24.95). Elaine was the communications director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California for over twenty years and we ...
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October 12, 2009
- When our countries are at war, it’s important for us to give equal opportunities to our peoples to fight for our countries, regardless of them being gay, straight, Black, White, men, women etc. We are dealing with hard times and we cannot afford to waste our time of being suspicious of others because of race, ethnicity, gender, religious, non-religious, sexual orientation, marital status etc. ...
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September 29, 2009
- bettnorris | Edit From the foot of Dexter Avenue, looking toward the capitol. Sometimes, it begins with an image in my head, sometimes, it starts with stumbling across an old photo, like this one. I lived in Montgomery for 13 years, and worked in a state building behind the capitol. No one can resist being struck by the juxtaposition of so many interconnected and disparate ...
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June 29, 2009
- You know when we can really celebrate? When the guys who left town with our Constitution get 150 years behind bars (and not the kind that offer dry martinis).
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June 22, 2009
- So much to celebrate last November 5th, the day after America's 2008 national election. The Chicago audience was giddy with excitement as the incoming president spoke. No reason to notice an older man standing quietly in the crowd, tears running down his face, features twisted with emotion. Once the photograph was published, though, responses were quick -- twitters, smug columns and lightweight ...
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June 5, 2009
- "In 20 years, historians will call Steve Travers's ONE NIGHT, TWO TEAMS the BOYS OF SUMMER of college football." - Fred Wallin, Sports Overnight.
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May 28, 2009
- Marv Goux, among others, said that Sam Cunningham “did more for civil rights in three hours than Martin Luther King did in 20 years.” King himself, in his famous “let freedom ring” speech, had quoted from the great Civil War “Battle Hymn of the Republic”: “MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD.” King’s dream has been realized. What he started was ...
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April 29, 2009
- "There is nothing new in the world except the history we do not know," said former President Harry S. Truman. Those words resonated with powerful significance April 3, 2009, when Mrs. Naomi King and Dr. Babs Onabanjo debuted in Savannah a preview of the film, A.D. King, Brother to the Dreamer, Behold the Dream.The screenings, sponsored by the Savannah Coastal Southern Christian ...
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April 17, 2009
- From USA Today: "NEW YORK (AP) — Two days after Amazon said a "glitch" had caused the sales rank to be dropped from thousands of books, the numbers returned Tuesday for Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain, James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and other notable titles."The online retailer issued a promise on Sunday that the numbers would be restored. But it was Tuesday morning ...
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