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Trash/recycling pickup on MLK Day: Ironic & wrong

January 22, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Cities, Civil Rights Leave a comment

On Martin Luther King Day this year [2016], I was surprised to see the trash and recycling trucks clanking down my street in suburban

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Dr. King’s dream, and the hijabi women who dream it, too

January 18, 2016 Renee Shur Activism, Civil Rights, Gender issues, Media, Religion in Politics, Widgets: Women, Women Leave a comment

Standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial before a throng of civil-rights activists in August of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his

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Takeaways from “Selma”

January 9, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, History, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

Can I speak honestly about the new movie, “Selma?” No doubt, it’s going to get a lot of support for an Oscar. Critics have

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The New Denial: How much of partisan gridlock is driven by race?

September 11, 2013 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Activism, Civil Rights, Congress, Obama, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Senate, Voting/Elections One comment

Recently, historian Taylor Branch said, “Everybody says partisan gridlock is poisoning America, but nobody asks how much of it, underneath, is driven by race

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