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All Posts For - Civil Rights

John Lewis, Donald Trump, and the Meaning of Legitimacy

January 16, 2017 Current News Civil Rights Comments are off for this post

John Lewis surely believes in the orderly transfer of power as a tenet of democracy, but asking him to keep quiet and sit through the inaugural ceremonies this time is asking too much.

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NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

October 15, 2013 PPJC Picks Civil Rights Comments are off for this post

Each day the NSA collects contacts from an estimated 500,000 buddy lists on live-chat services as well as from the inbox displays of Web-based e-mail accounts.

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Joseph Stiglitz: How Dr. King Shaped My Work in Economics

August 28, 2013 Current News Civil Rights Comments are off for this post

His message was that the injustices of the past were not inevitable. But he knew, too, that dreaming was not enough.

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The Rev King didn’t dream of better people; he dreamed of a better system

August 28, 2013 PPJC Picks activism Comments are off for this post

Half a century ago, the keynote speaker Martin Luther King took to the Lincoln Memorial to speak truth to power. Today the keynote speaker is a black man who represents power.

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The Forgotten Radicalism of the March on Washington

August 23, 2013 PPJC Picks activism Comments are off for this post

Relatively few people know or recall that the Kennedy administration tried to get organizers to call it off; that the FBI tried to dissuade people from coming; that racist senators tried to discredit the leaders.

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