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HoCoPoLitSo's writer-in-residence Derrick Weston Brown seeks to inspire the poet within us all
“Attention, attention … the mic is now open.” It is only fitting that Derrick Weston Brown begins his presentation at local high schools with an original poem beckoning “all poets and lovers of the word.” “Poetry...
Tags: Schools, Howard County, The Amistad, Newspaper and Magazine, Teaching and Learning
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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: Shootings, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Politics
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History is for the young
National science fairs, spelling bees and spoken word contests seem to get their share of attention. But over the next few days, schools in the Chicago area will host a less-heralded competition — their history fairs, with students hoping to win and...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Lil Wayne, Justice and Rights, Hotels and Accommodations, Teaching and Learning
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A year later, Trayvon Martin case murkier than ever
The simple story — cops yawn when burly white vigilante stalks and kills unarmed African-American child for the "crime" of walking while black — shocked the conscience of much of the nation a year ago and touched off an explosion of...
Tags: George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, Lab Tests, Crime, Law and Justice, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Epic to pull track with Lil Wayne's vulgar reference to Emmett Till
This post has been updated. See note below for details. Epic Records Chairman Antonio “L.A.” Reid has apologized to the family of slain civil rights figure Emmett Till and his label is working to remove from circulation a remix of the...
Tags: Lil Wayne, Justice and Rights, Emmylou Harris, Karate, Waylon Jennings
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Forgetting Black History
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelWith Black History Month moving into full swing, photos of the same five black activists are plastered on the news, posters and flyers. The same line from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream speech” is repeated over and over... -
In FBI records, clues about a photographer's work as an informant
Ernest Withers watched the trajectory of the civil rights movement from behind his camera lens. He was in Mississippi in 1955 when an all-white jury acquitted two white men accused of brutally murdering Emmett Till, a visiting black Chicago teenager,...
Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Arts, Career and Workplace, U.S. Department of Justice, Police Investigations
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Fotos de Sandy Hook cambiarían el debate
“La cara mutilada de la víctima se dejó intacta por los empleados de la funeraria a petición de la madre. Ella dijo que quería que “todo el mundo” presenciara la atrocidad.” La Revista Jet, 15 de septiembre de 1955, acerca del...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Barack Obama, Southern Connecticut State University, National Rifle Association of America
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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: Martin Luther King Jr., Lower East Side, Paul Robeson, Gordon Parks, Manhattan (New York City)
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Friday night sees return of folk musician
Staff reports@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Ben Bedford, a nationally recognized folk musician, will...Tags: Music Industry, Music, Radio Industry, Radio, Genesis (music group)
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Hero's blood spilled in Vietnam still heals today
Chinta Strausberg was visiting a relative's South Side business in January 1993 when — out of the blue — an elderly uncle telephoned her at the automotive parts shop. "First I was surprised that he knew I was there, but he kept saying,...
Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Awards and Prizes, White House, Ku Klux Klan, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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'American Night' at Yale Rep Offers Revisionist Historical Hilarity
American Night — The Ballad of Juan José Through October 13 at the Yale University Theater, 222 York St., New Haven. Presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre, (203) 432-1234, yalerep.org. American Night is a nightmare that turns into a hopeful...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Jerry Lewis, Neil Diamond, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Richard Montoya
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