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Jackson: Obama's place in movement
The Swampby Rick Pearson The Rev. Jesse Jackson says the anticipated nomination of Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate represents a crowning achievement for the civil rights movement as well as an "I-told-you-so" moment in the history of...Tags: Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Rep. Dingell sets House longevity record
The SwampRep. John Dingell, D-Mich., with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, and former President Bill Clinton, share a laugh at a Capitol Hill ceremony honoring Dingell (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) by Frank James "Change" was the rallying cry of last year's......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, National Government, John Lewis, Lower House
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: On the death of a hapless icon and his question that had to be asked
Leonard PittsThere was always something hapless about Rodney King. He entered the nation's consciousness -- and its conscience -- as a shambling drunk, an unemployed black construction worker who tried to outrun L.A. police rather than be arrested for drunk driving....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Racism, Rodney King, American Red Cross
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'Family' connections: How Phylicia Rashad found Stovall and his play set in Hyde Park
When Phylicia Rashad was cast as a replacement Violet Weston in Anna D. Shapiro's Broadway production of Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," the Broadway gossip boards were abuzz with the notion of casting an African-American actress, best known for...
Tags: Arts and Culture, White House, Barack Obama, Music, John Cameron Mitchell
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Cool Classics! hits close to home with schoolchildren
Mara Tapp was driving through the North Kenwood neighborhood on Jan. 29 when she saw a swarm of police cars. She knew something was wrong but continued to the after-school class she teaches at nearby Reavis Elementary. She would later learn that the...
Tags: Shootings, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, University of Chicago, Murder, Students
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Trice: Obama-inspired quilt exhibit had troubled past
When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44," in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to...Tags: Martin Luther King Day, Minority Groups, Barack Obama, White House, Arts and Culture
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Orlando marketer works to bring recognition to slain civil-rights icon Medgar Evers
"Man has not until this day, done what God would have us do. That is, love our neighbor as ourselves, especially if one neighbor happens to be black, and the other neighbor white." — Medgar Evers 1963 was an eventful year in America — one...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights, Nobel Prize Awards, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Wasn't Sandy Hook enough?
Mary SanchezIs a modern day Emmett Till necessary to upend America's state of denial about gun violence? For those who go looking, there are detailed verbal accounts of the carnage that happened behind the walls of Sandy Hook Elementary School. Of the gore created...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy
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Pulitzer finalist Wadada Leo Smith symbolizes Chicago jazz power
Ever since the late 1990s, the forces behind the Pulitzer Prize in music have tried to push the award outside the narrow precincts of classical composition. On Monday, the Pulitzers made the next dramatic step in that evolution, with jazz musician...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Bob Dylan, Music, Justice System, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Willis Tower, Artists, Fine Artists, Lake Forest College, Oprah Winfrey
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Using images to change history
The civil rights movement was full of dynamic and evocative images. Today, even many of us born after its iconic moments were captured on film can describe Martin Luther King Jr.'s outstretched arm pointing a sea of people toward a future decades beyond...Tags: Lower East Side, Crime, Law and Justice, Muhammad Ali, Minority Groups, Gordon Parks
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Getting Control Of Guns For All Americans
The Hartford Courant"If The Civil Rights era has to be mentioned at all in the current gun debate, it's that the U.S. would be safer if blacks had stayed at the back of the bus — without access to firearms." — Email from reader taking issue with citing Emmett...Tags: Barack Obama, Shootings, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Personal Weapon Control, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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