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The CBC Legislative Conference Tackles Immigration Policy
Leonie Hermantin remembers that when she was growing up in New York, her father told her she couldn’t date any African-American boys or young men. The thing is, Hermantin’s skin is brown. She was born in Haiti and spent 12 years there before her family moved to the United States. Alexandra King, an African American,…
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Sharpton's Reclaim the Dream Rally Recalls the 1963 March
For a lot of the people who joined Al Sharpton’s Reclaim the Dream rally and march, it was their first opportunity to experience something close to what people saw and felt when they marched in Selma, Ala., or sat in at Greensboro, N.C.As the marchers made their way from Washington’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School…
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Thousands March Peacefully to 'Reclaim the Dream'
Exclusive from The Root: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Singing “We Shall Overcome” and chanting “No justice, no peace,” a sea of tens of thousands of marchers came from places as far-flung as California and New York to demonstrate support for age-old grass-roots issues like better education and more jobs. The mass of people filed in the sweltering…
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The Road From Selma to Montgomery, Revisited
On March 7, 1965, 600 people headed east out of Selma, Ala., to demand equal voting rights for African Americans. They didn’t get far—only six blocks—to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. There, state and local law enforcement attacked the marchers with billy clubs and tear gas. John Lewis, then a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating…
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The Recessionary Arts
On a blighted stretch of industrial highway in Maryland, Artmosphere, an arts-focused restaurant/bar/coffee shop, was a little light in the darkness. Creative types—writers, painters, musicians—would flock there for the camaraderie and to feed off of each other’s energy. On any given night, there was Miss Jane, poet Jane Landolt, eating dinner at her usual perch…
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Diary of a Mad Black Preacher
America is gearing up to welcome a new president whose theme is hope, and many Americans are trying to muster up all the faith they can to get through these tough economic times. And in keeping with the mood, a new message movie opens today that encourages us to seek strength from a higher power.…
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Best Supporting Actor
The Obama campaign office in Hampton, Va., started buzzing the moment Hill Harper walked into the door. The cherub-faced actor and now political-activist worked the small storefront office on a recent Saturday, shaking every hand. He wore jeans and a t-shirt. As a semicircle formed around him, he pressed his palms together, prayer style, and thanked…
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