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Voting Rights Act under attack
Shelby County, Ala. is suing the Justice Department because they think that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (and its reauthorization in 1982 and 2006) is unfair. The facts: The small
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Logan Burke
We join the community in mourning the loss of yet another one of our icons, Logan Burke. Burke was a quiet giant. His modesty kept many of his vast achievements obscure. Long before he
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Access Denied?
Access in East Winston onto and off of Highway 52 became even more restricted this week. The state Department of Transportation permanently closed the Fifth Street entrance ramp to the highway on Monday. This
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Mississippi, Again!
In 1969, while a graduate student at Notre Dame, I had a one night career on WNDU, the campus radio station. After I played Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam!,” I was banned from the airwaves.
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Whitney Young: Mr. Inside
“I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective
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Rallying to Right Wrongs
On Saturday, Feb. 9, thousands of participants arrived at Shaw University (in Raleigh) to march to the General Assembly (The People’s House) on Jones Street. The State NAACP, in conjunction with more than 100
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Black Leader’s Wish List
During the first week of President Obama’s second term, I joined a coalition of civil rights leaders in Washington, D.C. to call for immediate action on the urban jobs crisis and a host of
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Hands off Malia and Sasha!
Just when you think leaders of the National Rifle Association can’t stoop any lower, they keep managing to plunge even deeper. This time, they have strayed way over the line of respectability by
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Remembering Hardesty
On Jan. 9, 2013 hundreds of people gathered at Goler Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church to celebrate the home going of Mr. Charles L. Hardesty. Charles left us on Jan. 5, his 60th birthday. Charlie,
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Is MLK Day a Time for Celebration?
This coming Monday, and the days leading up to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, will be routine. Men, women and children of every creed and color will march, evoking Dr. King’s dream
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