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In Haley Barbour's Mississippi: Civil War Looms Over License Plates
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyThe South is a place where many folks still want to believe in an antebellum region of moonlight and magnolias. Sometimes, that nostalgia clashes head-on with the politically correct present. In Mississippi, such a battle is raging over -- of all things -- license plates marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Related Stories Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour: From Inside Player to White House Contender Haley Barbour to Free Imprisoned Sisters -- but One Must Donate Kidney to the Other The Sons of Confederate Veterans has launched a campaign to ...
Elton John in Us Weekly: Too Hot for an Arkansas Grocery
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyArkansas has a way of making it onto the national stage -- and sometimes the publicity isn't very complimentary. The latest from Bill Clinton's home state: Harps grocery store in the small town of Mountain Home in northern Arkansas deemed a magazine story on gay singer Elton John to be obscene. The store placed gray "family shields" over copies of the Us Weekly magazine, which features the singer, his partner, and their new adopted baby. Printed on the shields were the words: "To protect our young shoppers." But the shields didn't stay up for long -- not after members of the Arkansas' GLBT ...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Daughter Won't Lead SCLC
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA - The Rev. Bernice King says she will not assume the presidency of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King was elected in October 2009 to lead the organization co-founded by her father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., more than 50 years ago. Soon after, the SCLC's chairman was accused of financial mismanagement, and bitter infighting among the group's leaders landed the split factions in a courtroom. King said Friday that she is shifting her attention to furthering her mother's legacy after dedicating "an exhaustive amount of time, energy and resources to assess the ...
Obamas Mark King Holiday With Service at DC School
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday by joining a painting project at a school on Capitol Hill. On the federal holiday named for the slain civil rights leader, Obama brought his family to Stuart Hobson Middle School, where he and first lady Michelle Obama helped paint bright red apple characters on pillars in the lunchroom to encourage healthier eating. Their daughters, Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, sat separately at tables and worked on other painting projects. Related Stories Martin Luther King's Peace Legacy ...
No Way Dr. King Would Wear Air Jordans
By Terence Moore - AOL NewsThe Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is a time of reflection for me. Not only have I been a lifelong admirer of the Drum Major for Justice, I was a deacon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where I got to know many of his relatives, friends and associates. That's why I'm thinking about the essence of this day, which is to remind folks to engage in public service. That includes famous entertainers and professional athletes -- you know, whether they like it or not. As a result, the following was disturbing last week, but it also was predictable: according to a national survey taken by the combination ...
School Desegregation Battle: A Thing of the Past . . . and the Present
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- "Courage: The Carolina Story That Changed America" has returned to its original home at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte after a long time on the road. It took the story of the South Carolina case that led to the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision -- striking down school segregation -- to Atlanta, Baltimore, New York and the Museum of Tolerance, a Simon Wiesenthal Center museum in Los Angeles. Parts of the exhibition were used in a tour of South African museums arranged by the U.S. State Department. As it moves back into ...
Kay Mills: Remembering a Trailblazing Journalist
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyAs we prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, we reflect on a time when minorities and women struggled for equality in the United States. King was the motivation and the spirit behind the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, but many others did their part in the continuing efforts to bring about equality for all in America. Kay Mills was one of those people. She was a friend of mine, and of hundreds of other women journalists for whom she helped blaze a trail. She died Thursday of a heart attack at age 69 in Santa Monica. She began her career as a journalist in the mid-1960s after ...
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour Criticized for Downplaying '60s Racial Tensions
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyGov. Haley Barbour took heat Monday for comments that appeared to minimize the racial tensions of the civil rights movement and praise segregationist organizations in 1960s Mississippi. Barbour, whose name has been mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for president in two years, was interviewed for a lengthy profile in the the Weekly Standard. "I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour said of race relations during the early 1960s in his hometown of Yazoo City, Miss. The two-term governor credited the relatively peaceful integration of schools in Yazoo City to Citizens ...
Race, Sex and Religion in the Case of Bishop Eddie Long
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyWhat is the black church? For many, it's a straight line from masses of slaves singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and praying for deliverance in the next world to modern-day masses of worshipers providing ministers with expensive gifts and undying loyalty. But just as that early American narrative leaves out the Africans who retained their Muslim and other beliefs, the attempt to make Bishop Eddie Long's story the troubled symbol of black religious thought oversimplifies -- and does an injustice to -- the varied traditions of African-American churchgoers as well as the inner conflicts of ...
Obama's Oval Office Makeover Feels Like 'Den'; No Taxpayer Money Was Spent
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIt is arguably the world's most famous office, but it's doubtful many viewers of President Obama's address to the nation Tuesday night noticed the makeover the West Wing room got while the president was on vacation. The Oval Office has been redecorated. It's still round. But in some ways, it looks more like a well-appointed den than a formal place where some of the most powerful people in the world meet. The New York Times put it this way: "The look is angular and modern -- it evokes the feel of a den -- and tends toward natural hues of brown and taupe, than the gold and yellow tones favored ...
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