On AlterNet: civil rights
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "civil rights"
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. September 3, 2008.
"It's like we don't have rights. Like we don't even live here."
Martin Luther King, Jr., AlterNet. August 28, 2008.
Today is the 45th anniversary of MLK's historic speech.
John Nichols, TheNation.com. August 28, 2008.
A hundred years ago, Dems questioned whether to take a stand against lynching. Today, Obama's nomination completes a long process of transformation.
Emily Feder, AlterNet. August 18, 2008.
I was recently stopped by Homeland Security as I was returning from a trip to Syria. What I saw in the hours that followed shocked and disturbed me.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Election 2008. August 4, 2008.
Senator stumped, stumbles.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. July 24, 2008.
When labor rights are protected, wages go up. It's time to make union-membership a civil right.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. June 26, 2008.
Author Keli Goff on how today's youth -- black youth in particular -- choose their leaders. Hint: It's not by skin color or party affiliation.
Brave New Films, Democracy Now! AlterNet: Video. June 18, 2008.
Democracy Now! pays tribute to the civil rights icon.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Election 2008. April 4, 2008.
The fact of the matter is that McCain brought this on himself, with his paper trail of cozying up to racists and his voting record.
John Nichols, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. March 13, 2008.
Paterson has been handed a remarkable opportunity to be not just a state officials but a national leader.
Thomas J. Gardner, Madison Capital Times. February 29, 2008.
Torture is not a new phenomenon. Just ask the Memphis police officers who beat me forty years ago.
Kim Sengupta, The Independent UK. February 1, 2008.
Six years after "liberation," civil rights are getting worse in Afghanistan.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. January 23, 2008.
Our own mourning should help us understand and strive to prevent the unspeakable pain of others.
Mister Leonard Pierce, Sadly, No! AlterNet: PEEK. January 21, 2008.
Conservative columnist Paul Greenberg called the lifelong liberal activist "the very definition of an American conservative".
Adam Howard, AlterNet. January 21, 2008.
People usually focus on the historic "I Have a Dream" speech, but it's the work King was doing at the end of his life that deserves more attention.
Megan Garber, Columbia Journalism Review. January 17, 2008.
How the press fanned Dem candidates' so-called "racial tension."
GottaLaff, Cliff Schecter's Blog AlterNet: Election 2008. January 15, 2008.
Looks like this time it's Obama who showed some--what's the word? Oh yeah--leadership.
Eliseo Medina, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 2, 2007.
Eliseo Medina: For the minority workers shipped into America's richest enclave, the fight for basic human dignity continues.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. October 22, 2007.
Civil rights attorneys say the DOJ has turned away from suing on behalf of minority voters that tend to support Democrats.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. July 25, 2007.
After the wave of successes in 2004 voter registration drives by groups like ACORN, a half-dozen states passed severe laws that scared off voting activists -- and now the Senate is weighing in.
Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. April 30, 2007.
The United States has seen a series of astonishing gay advances in the past three weeks.
Richard Blair, AlterNet: PEEK. April 25, 2007.
Richard Blair: Long before the civil rights struggles of the 1960's, Capt. David Parham (USN-Ret.) blazed trails for the military.
Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen, AlterNet. April 4, 2007.
Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate MLK's death, we get perfunctory news reports that fail to account for the last several years of his life -- and for good reason.
Paul Schmelzer, AlterNet: PEEK. March 15, 2007.
Paul Schmelzer: After Somali reporter covered "flying Imams" story...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. March 7, 2007.
The NAACP's embrace of showy, symbolic fights does little to solve the problems of drugs, crime, gangs and soaring joblessness among young blacks, or the astronomical rate of prison incarceration of blacks.
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