But Barber and the NAACP leadership are out of step with most black voters on the issue, said Kevin Daniels, president of the state chapter of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a black conservative group that opposes gay marriage. “When you …
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Harlem merchants band together to put Frederick Douglass Blvd. on the map with a colorful biz guide – New York Daily News
January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Harlem’s trendy Frederick Douglass Blvd. is now on the map. Literally. Merchants and community leaders from uptown’s new “it” neighborhood have created a colorful guide to market services and stores from W. 110th St., to W. 124th St …
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This week in the War on Women: Public hangings, rape is a gift from God, and cream of fetus soup – DAILY KOS
January 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The bill, the “Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity for Life Act,” would make it a crime to have an abortion “that it is sought based on sex or race of child or race of parent of that child.”
Read the entire story here:This week in the War on Women: Public hangings, rape is a gift from God, and cream of fetus soup – DAILY KOS
Lincoln’s birthday celebrations include balls to honor a president who couldn’t dance – Washington Post
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In Washington, the play “Necessary Sacrifices,” about the relationship between Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass opened at Ford’s Theatre on Jan. 25 and will close on Feb.18. And on Lincoln’s birthday, the theater is holding …
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Russell D’Oench, Skadden Partner of New York Mayoral Lineage, Dies at 58 – Bloomberg
January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
D’Oench then teamed with a few other people to create the North Star Fund — named for the antislavery newspaper founded in 1847 by abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. After graduating from Columbia Law School in 1992, he was a clerk for U …
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Report: Teen Employment Drops in Illinois – MyFox Chicago
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“To me, it’s not gang violence, it’s not that we’re not trying, it’s more of economic violence,” said Elizabeth Jones, 18, a senior at Frederick Douglass Academy on the city’s hard-hit West Side. “The economy is bringing us down.” Jones was one …
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Kathleen Battle sings spirituals at UCLA’s Royce Hall – Los Angeles Times
January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Frederick Douglass, the great 19th century orator, writer and former slave, once wrote of the music he regularly heard emerging from the fields and houses where he and other slaves toiled, “I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of …
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GOP’s Minority Outreach: We Talk, You Listen and Repeat – Washington Post
January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Yet, he listened to abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. Douglass met with Lincoln, pushed and prodded him, to enlist the aid of black soldiers and to expand the goals of the war to include the hopes of African Americans.
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Ex-teacher says slavery questions improper – United Press International
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A Gwinnett schools investigation found that Rivera was the author of a 20-page assignment that used Frederick Douglass, a 19th century orator and abolitionist who had been a slave, to teach math concepts. One of the questions read: “If Frederick …
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Arizona’s Attack on Chicano History and Culture Is Against Everyone – Huffington Post
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Why not the Ku Klux Klan’s and Hitler’s positions? But these should also be enriched with other views that challenge these and add to a student’s treasury of learning–those of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Elie Wiesel …
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