Civil Rights
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News Roundup 7/10/15
Happy hot, hot Friday. The world continues to turn — a promising week on the civil rights front, a high-intensity time on the geopolitical stage. Here’s what you might have missed: South Carolina takes the confederate flag down from its state house. #finally. Check out Wanda Williams-Bailey, Strom Thurmond’s granddaughter — an interracial woman —…
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A Survey of Community and Labor Perspectives in the Wake of the Eric Garner Case
By Donald LaHuffman Produced for “Labor and Media Studies” with Prof. Ari Paul, Fall 2014 The United States recently exploded in protest around the country as citizens mobilized to show displeasure at the Staten Island Jury findings. The jurors decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner. Pantaleo had allegedly…
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Hillary Clinton’s commitment to civil rights
This article originally appeared on The Hill. By Basil Smikle Jr. On a subfreezing morning in January 2003, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) walked to the pulpit of Trinity Baptist Church’s Martin Luther King Day celebration in the Bronx to make a startlingly rousing speech to their predominantly African-American congregation. Typically, such speeches are principally aspirational —…
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Paul Robeson: A Watched Man
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue By Jordan Goodman Verso, 2013 The famous African-American singer and actor became a leading voice for civil rights at home and abroad in the 1930s and beyond. This biography draws on internal government archives to focus on harassment and repression waged against…
