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    Apr 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. House votes to honor victims of 1963 Birmingham church bombing

    WASHINGTON -- On this year’s 50th anniversary of a deadly church bombing that helped spur passage of landmark civil rights legislation, the House voted Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to four black girls killed in the explosion at a Birmingham, Ala., church.
    WASHINGTON -- On this year’s 50th anniversary of a deadly church bombing that helped spur passage of landmark civil rights legislation, the House voted Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to four black girls killed in the...

    Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Human Interest, Crime, Law and Justice, Ku Klux Klan, Prisons

    2. Feb 28, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times Exclusive

  2. Scalia's slam of the Voting Rights Act is a bar-stool rant

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is alleged to be one of the great intellects of conservative jurisprudence, but his comments during oral arguments over a challenge to the 1965 Voting Rights Act displayed all the mental acuity of a third-tier talk radio bozo.
    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is alleged to be one of the great intellects of conservative jurisprudence, but his comments during oral arguments over a challenge to the 1965 Voting Rights Act displayed all the mental acuity of a third-tier...

    Tags: Antonin Scalia, Crime, Law and Justice, Voting Rights Act of 1965, George W. Bush, U.S. Congress

    3. Feb 28, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Body of openly gay mayoral candidate found in Mississippi

    A person of interest is being held in the death of an openly gay candidate running for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., officials said on Thursday.
    A person of interest is being held in the death of an openly gay candidate running for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., officials said on Thursday. The person being held has not been charged, Will Rooker, a spokesman for the Coahoma County sheriff’s...

    Tags: Chuck Espy, Elections, Politics, Barack Obama

    4. Jan 2, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Disarm the filibuster

    On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate will return to some semblance of a functioning legislative body. That day a majority of senators could vote to eliminate Rule XXII, which authorizes the notorious filibuster.
    On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate will return to some semblance of a functioning legislative body. That day a majority of senators could vote to eliminate Rule XXII, which authorizes the notorious filibuster. Article 1, Section 6 of the...

    Tags: Jeff Merkley, Harry Reid, Martin T. Heinrich, U.S. Senate, Republican Party

    5. Sep 11, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  5. Goldberg: Forward to what, Democrats?

    "Forward" is a perfectly appropriate slogan for progressives.
    "Forward" is a perfectly appropriate slogan for progressives. Progress suggests forward or upward motion. That's why revolutionaries and radicals as well as liberal incrementalists have always embraced some derivation of the forward trope. So ingrained...

    Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Democratic Party, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Bill Clinton

    6. Feb 22, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Obamas attend groundbreaking for African American history museum

    Culture Monster
    The Smithsonian Institution officially broke ground this morning on the National Museum of African American History and Culture, slated to open in 2015....
    7. Oct 6, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Fred Shuttlesworth dies at 89; hard-charging civil rights figure

    The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a blunt-talking preacher who braved beatings, bombings and fire-hosings to push Birmingham, Ala., to the forefront of the civil rights movement and advanced the historic fight with a confrontational strategy that often put him at odds with its most charismatic leader, died Wednesday. He was 89.
    The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a blunt-talking preacher who braved beatings, bombings and fire-hosings to push Birmingham, Ala., to the forefront of the civil rights movement and advanced the historic fight with a confrontational strategy that often...

    Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Racism, Mining, NAACP, Activism

    8. Mar 28, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. 'The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama' by David Remnick

    On Oct. 9, 2009, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs woke up at dawn and received startling news from Oslo. President Obama, only 48, had just received the Nobel Peace Prize. Usually, this most prestigious of awards honors lifetime accomplishment (read septuagenarian) or recent diplomatic triumph (read Woodrow Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles). But not this time.
    On Oct. 9, 2009, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs woke up at dawn and received startling news from Oslo. President Obama, only 48, had just received the Nobel Peace Prize. Usually, this most prestigious of awards honors lifetime accomplishment...

    Tags: Billie Holiday, Government, White House, Social Issues, Culture

    9. Apr 21, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Dorothy Height dies at 98; civil rights leader fought for women's, children's issues

    Dorothy Height, who was called the queen mother of the civil rights movement through seven decades of advocacy for racial equality — including 41 years as president of the National Council of Negro Women — has died. She was 98.
    Dorothy Height, who was called the queen mother of the civil rights movement through seven decades of advocacy for racial equality — including 41 years as president of the National Council of Negro Women — has died. She was 98. Height, who...

    Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Documentary (genre), Racism, Social Issues, Oprah Winfrey

    10. Mar 22, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Will going negative on healthcare doom Republicans in 2010? Catering to tea party activists could backfire

    Top of the Ticket
    Now it gets ugly. Not that it wasn't before. During 14 months of partisan smearing, the main Republican strategy was to demonize President Obama and his healthcare reform. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused Obama of wanting to convene death......
    11. Feb 15, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Clinton, Obama sound populist themes in Midwest

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
    The nation's economic anxieties took center stage in the increasingly rancorous Democratic presidential race Thursday as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama tilted their campaigns toward blue-collar voters in the upcoming Wisconsin and Ohio primaries....

    Tags: Parties and Movements, Government, Madison (Dane, Wisconsin), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Plant Openings

    12. Jul 2, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. 'Breach of Peace' fills in the blanks on the 'Freedom Riders'

    <i>July 6, 2008</i>
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    July 6, 2008 The story was already written: Vividly rendered on those young faces -- excited, angry, naive, fearful, idealistic. But it was only the first leg of their journey. That's what first struck Eric Etheridge when he first laid eyes on a trove of...

    Tags: Heroism, Local Government, Crimes, Photography, Stokely Carmichael

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ongressman John Lewis, D-Ga., at left, appears at a Dem...
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U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., (left), Broward Democratic Chairman Mitch Ceasar (center) and U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar (right).
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President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joseph Biden, makes a statement to the nation Sunday night following the final vote in the House of Representatives for comprehensive health care legislation.
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