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Rosa Parks’s official arrest report: She refused to give bus seat to white man 58 years ago today
Here’s a piece of history: the arrest report from Montgomery, Ala., police for Rosa Parks on Dec. 1, 1955, the day she rode a Montgomery city bus
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Watch Harvard Students Fail the Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote in 1964
This summer, we revisited a literacy test from the Jim Crow South. Given predominantly to African-Americans living in Louisiana in 1964, the test consisted of 30 ambiguous questions to be answered in 10 minutes. One wrong answer, and the test-taker was denied the right to vote.
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How the FBI Tried to Block Martin Luther King’s Commencement Speech
The untold story of a government plot, a maverick college president, and the most important figure of the civil rights era
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Supreme Court Moves to Undo Civil Rights Law ... Again: Sonali Kolhatkar
The U.S. Supreme Court has once again taken it upon itself to reconsider a landmark civil rights law. - 2015/01/29
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Bryan Cranston & David Shore's ‘Sneaky Pete’ Civil Rights Crime Drama From Rene Balcer Get CBS Pilot Orders
CBS is rounding out the pilot pickup activity tonight with two drama orders, to Sneaky Pete, written and executive produced by Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and House creator David Shore, and civil rights crime drama For Justice, from Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal’s Tribeca Productions, Law & Order veteran Rene Balcer and best-selling author James Patterson. Sneaky Pete had a production commitment; For Justice, a put pilot commitment.
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When America behaved like ISIS: Jesse Washington and the Bible Belt’s dark history of public lynchings
They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death. After listening to one newscast after another rightly condemn the barbaric killing of that Jordanian air force pilot at the bloody hands of ISIS, I couldn’t sleep. My mind kept roaming the past trying to retrieve a vaguely remembered photograph that I had seen long ago in the archives of a college library in Texas.
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Arkansas Governor Sends Religion Bill Back for Rewrite
Arkansas' Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson said on Wednesday he is sending the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act back to the legislature for a rewrite.
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Judge: FBI's Ruse to Catch Poker Champ in Vegas Hotel Room Went Too Far
A federal judge in Las Vegas has ruled that FBI agents went too far when they shut off Internet service to a Las Vegas hotel room last summer, then posed as repairmen so they could get a peek into the room without a search warrant.
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$1 Billion TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed as Ineffective “Junk Science”
SPOT, whose techniques were first used in 2003 and formalized in 2007, uses “highly questionable” screening techniques, according to the ACLU complaint, while being “discriminatory, ineffective, pseudo-scientific, and wasteful of taxpayer money.” TSA has spent at least $1 billion on SPOT.
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Must you always stop immediately for a cop?
When DelRea Good sped in the opposite direction past a county cop in Portage Township, the officer immediately clocked her for speeding and made an abrupt U-turn.
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Workers say Methodist church day-care center fired them for being gay
In the latest skirmish between advocates of gay rights and religious liberty, two preschool teachers in Orange County contend they were fired from a church-run day care center because they are gay.
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Behind The Photo That Changed The Boston Marathon Forever
Everyone knows someone who’s run the marathon. Today’s big-city races—in places like Boston, New York, Berlin, and London—draw Olympic hopefuls competing for hundreds of thousands of dollars and hordes of weekend warriors...
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What will Eureka do?
Eureka Springs [Arkansas] is an improbable place. Thirty-five miles from blood-red Rogers, on the way to Klansville in Harrison, up mountain roads straight out of Kubrick's "The Shining," the hairpins pitching out...
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The Problems With Policing the Police
As the Justice Department pushes reform, some push back
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The 45-minute mystery of Freddie Gray's death
When Freddie Gray briefly locked eyes with police at 8:39 a.m. on a corner of an impoverished West Baltimore neighborhood two weeks ago, they seemed to recognize each other immediately. As three officers approached on bicycles along West North Avenue, the 25-year-old Gray was on the east corner of North Mount Street chatting with a friend, according to Shawn Washington, who frequents the block.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government. -- Article IV, Section 4, US Constitution
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Nonviolence as Compliance in Baltimore
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. By Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The mothers being criminalised in El Salvador
The BBC's Katy Watson reports from El Salvador where strict laws on abortion are resulting in some women being jailed after having miscarriages.
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Will the Courts Finally Block Texas’ Worst-in-the-Nation Voter-ID Law?
Longtime voters are being turned away from the polls by Texas’ voter-ID law
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The corrosive cult of compliance in our schools
Rise of zero-tolerance policies strips school officials of the ability to exercise common sense
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