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David Hockney art gifts win him top rank in British philanthropy
Great Britain’s most munificent philanthropist of the moment is artist David Hockney, who landed at the top of the nation's annual Giving List by donating more than twice what he’s worth to his own art foundation. Hockney accomplished this...
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Obamas attend groundbreaking for African American history museum
Culture MonsterThe Smithsonian Institution officially broke ground this morning on the National Museum of African American History and Culture, slated to open in 2015.... -
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...Tags: Mining, Demonstration, Human Rights, NAACP, Metal and Mineral
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'Breach of Peace' fills in the blanks on the 'Freedom Riders'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 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: Crimes, Demonstration, Jackson (Hinds, Mississippi), Local Government, Arts and Culture
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Victory in the voting rights battle
We've come to the end of a remarkable journey. In the early 1960s, most Southern blacks were barred from voting. Yet today, just over four decades later, blacks and whites from across the country have selected an African American man as the presidential...Tags: Republican Party, John Jr Conyers, History, Maxine Waters, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Thursday's Democratic National Convention schedule
BLOG | SCHEDULE | PHOTOS/VIDEO | SPEECHES | POLITICS A-Z | RSS TELEVISION COVERAGE: The network channels (ABC, CBS, NBC) will offer nightly prime-time coverage of the convention from 7 to 8 p.m. The cable news channels (MSNBC, CNN,...Tags: Timothy M. Kaine, Regional Authority, Al Gore, Democratic National Conventions, Denver
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'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...Tags: U.S. Presidential Election (2008), Clarence Thomas, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities, National or Ethnic Minorities
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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.
Height, who...Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt, Oprah Winfrey, Congressional Gold Medal Honorees, Social Issues, George Bush
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Voters approve Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriages
UPDATE: Voters approve Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriages. With more than 95% of the vote counted, the measure leads 52.1% to 47.9%.
A measure to once again ban gay marriage in California led Tuesday, throwing into doubt the unions of an estimated...Tags: Human Rights Campaign, Companies and Corporations, Gavin Newsom, Mormon, Human Rights
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Will going negative on healthcare doom Republicans in 2010? Catering to tea party activists could backfire
Top of the TicketNow 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...... -
Clinton, Obama sound populist themes in Midwest
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe 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: Plant Openings, General Motors Corp., Exelon Corp., Civil and Public Service, Advertising
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A Cold War Hawk Who Set the Stage for Peace
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — When Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981, the United States faced two major foreign policy challenges: the generation-long Cold War with the Soviet Union, and an unfamiliar new threat from militant Islamic movements, which had...Tags: Cornell University, Wars and Interventions, Defense, History, St. Louis Cardinals
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