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Rand Paul to black student: Bringing up GOP voter suppression ‘demeans’ Civil Rights movement
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) accused a black Howard University student of demeaning the civil rights movement by bringing up recent GOP efforts to limit voting accessibility. “The Republican Party has been using their state legislators and their governments to prevent African-Americans from voting, because they didn’t want to re-elect President…
Holder: Minority rights under threat from voter ID laws
The US attorney general, Eric Holder, has warned that gains of the civil rights struggle hang in the balance in the face of a determined effort by many states to roll back laws ensuring the right to vote. Holder told a Washington conference on Wednesday that there is a “growing…
Beck: We have a ‘righteous calling’ to lead a ‘new civil rights movement’
Former Fox News personality Glenn Beck said he believed Tuesday morning that he was capable of leading a “new civil rights movement” in America after claiming that fascism was coming to Europe. Appearing on televangelist James Robison’s Life Today show, Beck commented on the popular Occupy Wall Street movement. “We…
Glenn Beck accuses John Lewis of thinking he’s John Lewis
One of the most annoying habits of conservative pundits is their tendency to take faux umbrage whenever it’s suggested that modern day liberals are the ones carrying the legacy of the civil rights movement when they do things like fight poverty (something Martin Luther King Jr. died trying to do)…
Kaufman at Huff Post: misguided race-based rant on LGBT rights — and ‘Homo-Toms’
“The signing of this bill marks a watershed moment for human rights in the District of Columbia,” said Rev. Hardies. “No longer will gay and lesbian couples be denied the fundamental right to marriage in our nation’s capital. I and the nearly 200 DC clergy who supported this bill look…
Black and gay — and reclaiming ‘civil rights’
As someone who is black and lesbian, it’s tiring and absurd to encounter the argument that the black civil rights movement somehow exclusively owns the ability to use “civil rights.” And the result of that is any challenge to this thinking amounts to stepping on the third rail. There is…
False, No Credit Received
No, New York Times. No. FOR the backers of Proposition 8, the state ballot measure to stop single-sex couples from marrying in California, victory has been soured by the ugly specter of intimidation. Some donors to groups supporting the measure have received death threats and envelopes containing a powdery white…
An open letter to Rick Warren that throws down the gauntlet
Yesterday I ran a couple of video open letters to Rick Warren — from Faith in America‘s Mitchell Gold and Tracey Zoeller, author of “The Pastor’s Daughter.” Today’s open letter is from Rodney Powell, a member of Faith In America’s board of directors and a former student activist in civil…
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