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...many Lebanese and enjoys broad support among Sunnis, Druze, Christians and some Shi'ites. When he sneaks from the Sérail for a rare meal outside, surprised restaurant patrons drown his arrival in applause. "He is a source of pride," says Elie Khoury, a leading pro-democracy activist who created the "I Love Life" advertising campaign to perk up Lebanese spirits. "We have a Prime Minister who is not performing like a politician." Adds Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a staunch Siniora ally: "He has proved to be a statesman. The coup d'état would have meant that...
...deep enough into any family and you can turn up some pretty interesting dirt. Ancestry.com found that Coleman Sharpton, the great-grandfather of civil rights activist AL SHARPTON, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was the great-great-grandfather of Senator STROM THURMOND. Yep, ancestors of the deceased icon of segregation owned ancestors of the permed icon of Brooklyn, N.Y. "The shame is that people were owned as property," said the ever voluble Sharpton, who used the revelation to do a little sermonizing. "Strom Thurmond ran for President in 1948 on a segregationist ticket...
...opposition to pop culture. There is a vast Christian entertainment industry, complete with wrestlers, comedians, novels, rock music and movies. The trumped-up campaign to "defend" Christmas has become a cottage industry for cultural commentators and Fox News personalities. And a narrative of cultural persecution among Christian political-activist groups--despite belonging to the U.S.'s majority religion and having a born-again President--keeps money and volunteers flowing to those groups...
DIED. Evelyn Munro, 92, activist and influential member of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, one of the first racially integrated unions, which fought for the rights of sharecroppers; in Laguna Beach, Calif. As the supervisor of the union's Memphis headquarters and later its education director, Munro attended risky meetings with racist plantation owners and police, edited a newspaper and mentored other women activists...
Students watched Hurt on-screen in his evolution into an activist whose post-college soul searching led him to challenge hip-hop artists like Mos Def, Fat Joe, and Busta Rhymes to contemplate images of manhood in their music...