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50 Years Later: Remembering a Female Civil Rights Activist
Harvard Law School professor Kenneth W. Mack writes at the Huffington Post that it’s an African-American woman, attorney Pauli Murray, who deserves credit for expanding the language of civil rights in 1963 to include women’s rights — and even LGBT rights. President Obama’s unprecedented endorsement of gay rights in his inauguration address last week —…
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Health Care Ruling: Not a Liberal Victory
(The Root) — Now that the dust has settled on the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the bulk of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it is perhaps time to examine the decision from the perspective of a traditional civil rights advocate — a person who favors strong federal protection for the rights…
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The Roots of Clarence Thomas' Black Burden
The oral argument over President Obama’s health care law and the Supreme Court’s decision to revisit its 2003 ruling upholding race-conscious university admissions have focused attention on Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Anthony Kennedy and their willingness to disturb apparently well-settled precedents. But just as assuredly, both cases will shine a spotlight on another justice…
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