The Social Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, 18)
Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | yesterday
People of faith are finally standing up to the secular fascists who have waged war on Christianity for decades. From Bill O'Reilly's latest column: It took a while, we're talking decades, but finally some American religious leaders say they are fed up. A few days ago, a faith-based group including Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York issued a scathing indictment of secularism in the USA entitled "The...
Pseudo-Intellectualism (Free subscription) | yesterday
claudette-colvin The images above feature Claudette Colvin. The images of her taken on a bus was part of a municipal bus decoration project done in her honor by school children of Portland, Maine. an excerpt from the nytimes From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History, By BROOKS BARNES On that supercharged day in 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery,...
Discriminations (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is seeking nominations for its 2010 “Fulfilling the Dream” award, an annual honor bestowed upon those who personify and promote “the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” One of the 2009 winners was “Students United for Nebraska, the student coalition that fought a constitutional ban on race- and gender-based affirmative action (the...
The Sixth Ward (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
View this month's edition here ! TULEY PARK TO LOSE THE LIBRARY Chicago Public Library will permanently close the Tuley Park Library on Wednesday, November 25. Patrons are encouraged to utilize the library on 79th & King Drive or 95th & Halsted. We will miss this staple in our community. CRIME On Monday, Oct. 26, late afternoon, a male claiming to be a Utility worker attempted to gain access...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The Advocate is asking the question " Would you support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act if gender identity protections were again taken out of the bill? " As of 9:30 AM PST Thanksgiving morning, this is the response: The initial response from the non-scientific poll responders seems to be a big "No." (Select the image to see more up-to-date poll results from The Advocate...
Mike Hudack (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
NY TIMES: No longer a civil rights footnote - before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin : asprettyasasong : inothernews : On that supercharged day in 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., she rode her way into history books, credited with helping to ignite the civil rights movement. But there was another woman, named Claudette Colvin, who...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Over the years, starting in 1994 , I've written Thanksgiving messages. Essays, lists, whatever. Every year the message is the same. Thanks. It's a message that never goes out of style. Thanksgiving is the best holiday. You don't have to believe in any particular god to be part of it, or even believe in god at all. This holiday includes everyone. All you have to do to participate is be thankful. We...
Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
As Americans go to share Thanksgiving meals with family, Rev. Giles Fraser writes for Ekklesia about the liberation meal that Christians share over Eucharist : “I promise you that many will come from the East and from the West to take their place at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in heaven’s reign.” So it says in Matthew's Gospel (8.11). Well, we as a family drove up from south...
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
by ERICA LIEPMANN , Causecast Associate Editor As part of President Obama's United We Serve campaign, the White House has launched a new initiative targeted at addressing national hunger. Running from Thanksgiving Day 2009 to Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18, the United We Serve: Feed a Neighbor initiative will raise awareness about hunger in America and provide tools for people to get involved...
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
I’ve laid my eyes on the casting sheets for Selma, Lee Daniels’ celluloid interpretation of the historic Civil Rights march that occurred in Alabama, in 1965. The “much-buzzed about” script is said to focus on the relationship between Martin Luther King Jr and Lyndon B. Johnson. I’m not at liberty to share the specifics of [...]
Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
But nonviolence in Cuba is not a new phenomenon: it was mentioned for the first time at the end of the 1960s by several Protestant church leaders. They broke with a tradition that had been adopted in the conservative gospel of the North, now being reformed by its Black American adherents, especially the southerners and particularly by the thought and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights...
ParalegalGateway's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
THE FIRST STEP By Patty Dietz-Selke QUOTE: “Take that first step in faith……..you may not see the whole staircase, but take that first step.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I love quotations. They inspire me, motivate me, fascinate me...
Raw Dawg Buffalo (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I write this with a heavy heart and before I leave for Memphis to bury my last grandmother. Martin Luther King Jr. once said “how soon ‘not now’ becomes never.” If anytime these words ring truer today than in times past. It has been 459 years since the first inhabitants of Africa were brought to these shores and just 41 years ago the descendents of these individuals were granted...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
LITTLE ROCK, ARK (AP).- Every day before heading to Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957, nine black students gathered at Daisy and L.C. Bates's home to prepare for the angry mob they faced as they integrated the all-white school. "It was kind of like a war room in a sense," said Carlotta Walls LaNier, one of the black students commonly known as the Little Rock Nine. "It...
The Gholston Post (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic and important address that we have since come to know as the “I Have a Dream” speech. During that speech, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King called for the people and the government to bring [...]
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LONDON (Reuters) –Singing songs on subjects ranging from death to drink, British baritone Marcus Farnsworth has won the top prize in the sixth biennial Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition. Farnsworth, 25, was selected for the 10,000-pound ($16,550) prize on Thursday night by an international panel of singers and musicians in the final round of the four-day contest, which saw...
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