By The Admin on July 10, 2010
McClatchy Newspapers
- Social media, they had down. Social justice, that was another matter.
For 29 high-school students of all backgrounds who gathered last month at a leadership camp addressing “social justice issues,” the phrase meant different things to different youth or, to most, nothing at all.
Equal opportunity, they understood. Dissent, they shared with Facebook friends.
But civil [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues | Tagged civil rights, NAACP, youth
By The Admin on May 8, 2009
Leonard Pitts Jr., Seattle Times
- “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
That quote’s for Marion Barry, who seems to need the reminder.
The former mayor and current city councilman of Washington, D.C., [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues | Tagged civil rights, gay rights, marion barry
By The Admin on August 21, 2008
Gwen Ifill, Time
- The first time I ever used the term post-civil rights to describe the new generation of African-American politicians I was studying, the Rev. Joseph Lowery hollered at me. He wanted to know, What in the devil does that mean?
I have to admit that I had no good answer for the 86-year-old civil [...]
Posted in National Politics, Race | Tagged civil rights, post-civil rights
