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Published: 11/14/10

50 Years Later, Ruby Bridges Still Fights for Equality

By  Dave Thier - AOL News
50 Years Later, Ruby Bridges Still Fights for Equality

(Nov. 14) -- When Ruby Bridges arrived for her first day at William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans 50 years ago, she thought it was Mardi Gras. People lined the streets, shouting and throwing things -- just like a Carnival parade. But these people weren't celebrating. At 6 years old, Bridges had been unwittingly thrust onto the grand stage of American history. Her parents had volunteered her to be the first black child to attend an all-white school in the South. Local law enforcement refused to protect her from the unruly mobs that surrounded her school, so every day she was ...

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Published: 10/13/10

End of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'? It Depends on Obama

By  Paul Wachter - AOL News
End of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'? It Depends on Obama

(Oct. 13) -- At any point during his first two years of office, President Barack Obama could have ended, unilaterally, "don't ask, don't tell," the ban on gays openly serving in the military. All it would have taken was an executive order. But he didn't. Instead, it's been ended -- at least temporarily -- by U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips, who was appointed to the federal court by Bill Clinton, the president who introduced the policy in 1993. Phillips ruled that don't ask, don't tell violated the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech, and the Fifth Amendment, ...

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Published: 08/17/10

Hillary Clinton Touts Global Health Initiative as Key Foreign Policy Tool

By  Sarah Wildman - Politics Daily
Hillary Clinton Touts Global Health Initiative as Key Foreign Policy Tool

"What exactly does maternal health or immunizations or the fight against HIV and AIDS have to do with foreign policy?" Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton queried a packed crowd of faculty and students at the Johns Hopkins School of Advance International Studies on Monday. "Well, my answer is 'everything.' " With a careful nod to the Bush administration's major efforts in global health – the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the President's Malaria Initiative -- Clinton introduced what she called the "next chapter in America's work in health care worldwide" ...

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Published: 06/17/10

Israeli Parents Jailed for Defying School Integration

By  Linda Gradstein - AOL News
Israeli Parents Jailed for Defying School Integration

JERUSALEM (June 17) -- Dozens of Israeli parents were sent to jail today after defying the Israeli Supreme Court's order to integrate a religious girls' school in a West Bank Jewish settlement. Jerusalem was a sea of black today as some 100,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated in support of the parents. The parents of students at the Beit Yaakov School for Girls had refused to obey the court's order to allow Sephardic girls -- whose parents or grandparents came from Morocco, Iraq or Yemen -- to study with Ashkenazi girls, whose forbears came from Eastern Europe. The supporters of the jailed ...

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