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Inauguration 2013: Rev. Jeremiah Wright calls on Obama to promote peace
WASHINGTON — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the president’s former pastor whose sermons touched off a firestorm in the 2008 political campaign, urged Monday that President Obama heed the words of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and transform...
Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Doyle McManus: Shifting sands of religion and politics
Of the 44 U.S. presidents, all but a handful have been affiliated with a relatively narrow list of traditional Protestant denominations.
Eleven were Episcopalians (12 if you count Thomas Jefferson, whose adult beliefs are a subject of debate), eight were...Tags: Jon Huntsman, Jr., Islam, Newt Gingrich, Thomas Jefferson, Mitt Romney
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Three years after Obama's race speech, he can joke about another man's skin color
Top of the TicketIs this progress? Funny? Could John Boehner make the same joke about Obama with no public comment?... -
Sarah Palin and Common have at least two things in common
Top of the TicketSarah Palin and Common both talk a lot about guns and share a common dislike toward... -
Toledo rallies for hometown hero Crystal Bowersox
Idol TrackerThere's nothing quite like the feeling of a hometown rallying around one of its own, and Toledo, Ohio, some 25 miles from the town of Elliston, where Crystal Bowersox resides when she's not competing on "American Idol," is finding out first-hand. With... -
'The Speech' edited by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
The Speech Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Bloomsbury: 272 pp., $18 In March 2008, Barack Obama gave himself an extended audition for president with "A More Perfect Union," his now-famous speech on race...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Rubber Products Industry, Murder, Civil Rights
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Mainstream media not jumping on the political rumor bandwagon
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCall me quaint and old-fashioned, but I give most of the mainstream media a hearty pat on the back for refusing to spread the inflammatory and thoroughly unsubstantiated rumor that Michelle Obama once railed against "whitey" from a pulpit. Fervent e-...Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Newspaper and Magazine, Arts and Culture, Larry Johnson, Television
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Obama pastor's words ring familiar in Chicago
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCarolyn Devine wiped the sweat out of her eyes and glanced up at her gym's TV sets, where a national debate over race was roiling. Newscasters heatedly debated Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's recent speech about his longtime pastor's incendiary comments....Tags: Social Issues, Church and State Relations, Minority Groups, Family, Entertainment
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Black clergy on same-sex marriage
As The Times' story "Coming to grips with same-sex marriage ruling" shows, with the mainstream media, there seems to be no real interest in thinking outside the box that has been drawn for them by certain gay groups. That is why we see the same faces...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Al Sharpton, Same-Sex Marriage, Colleges and Universities, Minority Groups
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Willie Horton or Lincoln-Douglas?
Today's question: Will the mood of the contest be civil but boring, nasty but entertaining, or something else? Will there be any action from a third party? Click here for previous installments from this week's Dust-Up. Godspeed Obama's "fight the smears"...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, Islam, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Primaries
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Obama and Clinton, race and gender
Today's question: How, if at all, does Hillary Clinton fit into the modern feminist movement? Did the Clinton-Obama contest really raise important questions about gender and race? All week, authors Amanda Marcotte and Katha Pollitt discuss contemporary...Tags: Social Issues, Auto Racing, Culture, Gloria Steinem, Mass Media
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Text of Sen. Barack Obama's 'A more perfect union' speech
These are the prepared remarks that the Illinois senator delivered today at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics, Civil Rights, Lion (animal), National Government
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