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Published: 08/4/10

Opinion: Racial Pride, or Racism?

By Michael Medved - AOL News

(Aug. 4) -- The recent skirmish between the NAACP and the Tea Party, along with the complicated case of Shirley Sherrod, brought new attention to uncomfortable old questions about racism and double standards. Many conservatives -- including several callers to my radio show -- made the case that the unapologetic African-American advocacy represented by the NAACP amounted to race-based bias that pushed the interests of one group at the expense of all others. I disagreed, and countered that that the whole concept of "black pride" and solidarity deserved more respectful attention than the notion ...

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Published: 07/22/10

Shirley Sherrod's Father Was Killed by a White Farmer

By Paul Wachter - AOL News

(July 22) -- Now that it's become clear that Shirley Sherrod isn't a racist and was wrongly fired from her job at the USDA, intriguing new facts about her are surfacing. None is more interesting than one that sheds new light on her road from being someone who firmly believed in racial solidarity to the point of wanting to forgo aid to white farmers to someone who came to be concerned with the plight of poor farmers of all colors: Sherrod's father was shot to death by a white farmer. One night in 1965, "her father, Hosie Miller, a black man and a deacon at Thankful Baptist Church [in rural ...

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Published: 06/5/10

'To Kill a Mockingbird' Turns 50, but Where Is Harper Lee?

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

This summer America celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of "To Kill a Mockingbird," but don't count on an appearance by the reclusive author, 84-year-old Harper Lee of Monroeville, Alabama. She hasn't granted an interview since 1964. She never gives speeches. She's rarely seen outside of her hometown. And she's apparently made her peace with her status as a one-book author. Harper Lee set the bar so high that subsequent books could never really leave its shadow. In point of fact she once told her cousin, "When you have a hit like that, you can't go anywhere but down." But you ...

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Published: 07/30/08

House Apologizes for Slavery, Jim Crow

By Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily

One hundred and forty years after any slave was legally held anywhere in the United States, the House of Representatives voted yesterday on a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and Jim Crow laws that discriminated against blacks mostly in the South. The measure was sponsored by Tennessee Representative Steve Cohen, a Democrat, and cited the, "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow." Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) said that he would consider introducing a similar resolution in the Senate. Passage of the bill marks the second time this year ...

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