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Once You Learn How to Read, You Will Be Forever Free!~Frederick Douglass
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Alex Heard is an editor at Wired magazine. He has also edited and written for The New York Times Magazine, Outside, The New Republic, Slate, and many other publications.
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargesia, Somalia in 1981 and was educated in the [...]

I do not remember much about August 28, 1963 because I was just shy of my seventh birthday. In my young forming mind I was not thinking about Martin Luther King, Jr. or the protest that had been waged in Birmingham, Alabama that spring. The thing that most concerned me that August was my baseball [...]

Netroots Nation amplifies progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate. Through our annual convention and a series of regional salons held throughout the year, we strengthen our community, inspire action and serve as an incubator [...]

In 1990, Activist and Legendary actors, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis visited Fort Wayne, IN to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Gingerbread House Preschool center. A portion of their Panel Discussion appeared on a talks show entitled “A New Generation”.
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Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free~Frederick Douglass
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Karla FC Holloway is James B.Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Professor Holloway is the author of eight books, including Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories (2002) and BookMarks–Reading in Black and White, A Memoir (2006) completed during a residency in Bellagio, Italy as [...]

If you learn how to read, you will be forever free! ~ Frederick Douglass
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Listen to an interview with James T. Paris on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show
James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at Brown University, where he taught for thirty years. His research interests include political, legal, and social history, as well [...]

Below you will find a piece decrying Affirmative Action by U. S. Senator James Webb of Virginia posted in the Wall Street Journal this week. There are many valid different opinions about the role of affirmative action, however, this is not one. What I find ironic about Mr. Webb’s take is that he is the [...]

Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free~Frederick Douglass
Maryse Condé was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, a small French/Creole-speaking Caribbean island. In 1953 she was sent by her parents to Paris, where she was educated at Lycée Fénéleon and Sorbonne, majoring in English. In 1958 she married [...]

The loss of civil rights advocate William L. Taylor
Friday, July 2, 2010; A22
Source: Washington Post

BILL TAYLOR was not one of those bold-face Washington names — except to those in the civil rights movement. If you were in that movement, you probably knew William L. Taylor, who died Monday at the age of [...]

Dear Senators Cornyn, Grassley, Kyl, and Sessions,
I am writing you all to express my disappointment concerning your recent comments regarding the late Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall.  All of you described Justice Marshall service (1967-1991) on the Supreme Court as “activist,” “result oriented,” and outside the “mainstream.” Unfortunately for the American people, whose historical memories are [...]