In Memphis, a crash course on the civil rights movementRUTH A. HILL, Copley News Service
Black America has always had a complicated “love story” with America, MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid told me in our recent "Salon Talks" conversation. “It is difficult," Reid said, "because you understand the country has never loved us, right?” Her new book"Medgar ...
Civil Rights Documentaries "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." –Martin Luther King, Jr."Whenever we stand against the flow of opinion on strongly contested issues, a Man does what he must, inspite of personal consequences, inspite of obstacles and ...
Once you have bought into the “cult” (as author John McWhorter calls it and I agree), it is in the follow-up session that the niceties disappear, revealing the cult leader’s real intention – with or without a secondary co-facilitator. Once they have you seated in the second session...
Over 70 experts, 30 helicopter medics, and a dozen relatives of those aboard the plane have arrived in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where a China Eastern Airlines plane with 132 people on board crashed. A local hospital was designated and over 200 medics are on...
[241] This revolution was opposed by the Soviet-supported communists who, perhaps surprisingly, campaigned against the loss of civil property rights.[241] As the war progressed, the government and the communists were able to exploit their access to Soviet arms to restore government control over ...
His followers talked of the dignity of the human person, the concept of human rights, and the duty to follow one’s conscience. Many of his followers became distinguished advocates of social justice. That was the understood plus side. But as Steve and I both learned later, it became a...
Text on OTRCAT.com ©2001-2025 OTRCAT INC All Rights Reserved. Reproduction is prohibited. The first half of the twentieth century was defined by the forty-year conflict which history remembers First and Second World Wars. That conflict finally ended with a series of seemingly illogical contra...
and reputations. Imagine if every public policy were promulgated the same way. Temporary “majorities” could strip hated groups of rights and empower preferred majorities with privilege and wealth. Imagine what it could do to tax policies and welfare. Democracy is a scorpion in the digital bottle...
Washington had stated that blacks needed industrial education and could forgo equal rights and the right to vote. Washington appeared to have said that blacks should earn the right to equality after they had gotten better educated as a race. Trotter found this outrageous. Ida Wells-Barnett and ...