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Haley Barbour Sidesteps Furor Over KKK-Linked License Plate in Mississippi
By Tom DiemerMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour won't condemn a proposal to issue a license plate honoring a Confederate general who was also one of the early leaders of the Ku Klux Klan. But the Republican governor says the plate "is not going to happen." "I don't go around denouncing people," Barbour said in ...
Shirley Sherrod Sues Andrew Breitbart Over Misleading Video
By Tom Diemer
Remember Shirley Sherrod? The former Agriculture Department employee has sued a conservative blogger for posting an edited video of her in which she appeared to acknowledge discriminating against a white farmer. Sherrod, who initially lost her job over the incident, is African-American. Sherrod ...
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx Juggles 2012 DNC -- and Everything Else
By Mary C. Curtis
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It's an exciting and heady time for Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, a leader in the city's successful campaign to win the 2012 Democratic National Convention. But he hardly has time to savor the moment. "What's next?" is a question he'll be answering from now until then, while he ...
Rush Limbaugh Has It Wrong. Some of My Best Friends Are Blondes
By Mary C. Curtis
What Rush Limbaugh doesn't know about black people could fill the empty cavern that is his brain. Many times over. Top of the list would have to be his habit of placing all black people into one monolithic pile, as though we act and think as one. (Oh geez, I missed the last meeting of the black ...
White Nationalist Looks for a Hotel and an Apology in Charlotte
By Mary C. Curtis
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- On Monday, on a plaza in front of the Government Center, Jared Taylor exercised his First Amendment right to free speech to insist that very right has been violated by city officials. Taylor heads the New Century Foundation, an organization that promotes what he calls "race ...
Ohio Democrats Say Gov. John Kasich Ignoring Blacks in Cabinet Hires
By Tom Diemer
An African American state senator says Ohio's new Republican governor John Kasich told her in a heated exchange over minority cabinet appointments: "I'm not going to hire your people." State Sen. Nina Turner said she wondered after the recent private meeting if "your people" meant black people. So ...
Diversity in America: Southern Black and White Women Discuss Race Together
By Mary C. CurtisCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It would be easy to dismiss the talk as academic jargon or political posturing and the goals as wishful thinking. But then, that would be ignoring the curiosity and sincerity of women eager to communicate across divides of race and culture. Could there be a more perfect topic for ...
Confronting Civil Rights History, Face to Face
By Mary C. Curtis
In one of comedian's Louis C.K.'s routines, he jokes that even well-educated whites tend to indulge in a little wishful thinking when it comes to recalling our country's history. Each year, he says, they "add 100 years to how long ago slavery was," guessing the number at maybe 400, instead of ...
New Alabama Governor Says Non-Christians 'Not My Brother, Not My Sister'
By David GibsonAlabama's new governor, Robert Bentley, told a Martin Luther King Day crowd that he plans to be a governor "of all the people," but then added that anybody "who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister." Bentley's remarks came ...
Sargent Shriver, a Peace Corps Founder and Liberal Activist, Is Dead at 95
By Tom Diemer
Sargent Shriver, first director of the Peace Corps, the 1972 Democratic vice presidential nominee and a trusted Kennedy in-law who was known as the family troubleshooter, is dead at the age of 95. Shriver, who had Alzheimer's disease, was hospitalized earlier in the week in Bethesda, Md., a ...
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