Civil Rights

Birmingham, 45 years later »

By Barbara Ransby, September 11, 2008

Forty-five years ago, one of the most pivotal racist attacks of the civil rights era occurred. Local members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on a Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963. The explosion killed four young girls, three of them age 14 and one of them only 11 years old.read more

Good-Bye, Jesse Helms »

By Kate Clinton, July 7, 2008

Trifecta news day – the man who played Bozo the Clown died; a transgendered man in Oregon gave birth to a baby girl; Jesse Helms died of “natural causes” in North Carolina at the age of 86. read more

Interracial or same-sex marriage: same core civil-rights issues »

By Akilah Monifa, June 12, 2008

We’re in the midst of Gay Pride Month, and we have much to celebrate and much yet to achieve.read more

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