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...clip, hosted in the acoustically-challenged Leverett Old Library, had no flowing tears, no furtive kisses, and no red flowers. The only unlocked secret was Bachelor Number Three’s key to Decatur, Ala., capable of opening any door in the city. But will his key open up the bachelorette’s heart? (Probably...
John Joseph IV, BIRMINGHAM, ALA...
...title of Remnick's opus refers to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the bloody origin point of a tide that swept the first black President into office 44 years later. But it is also an apt name for the story of Barack Obama's arc from youthful ambivalence to adult ambition, his struggle to reconcile his biracial roots and his attempt to build a political identity based on consensus rather than insistence. Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, has written an expansive work, as much an account of the forces that forged Obama's identity and intellect...
...great photojournalists know where to stand, Charles Moore knew where to be. He was there in all the right places of our civil rights imagination. This small, wiry white Southerner, who died March 9 at 79, had his lens, and his courage, at the ready: in Montgomery, Ala., in 1958, when cops were shoving and arm-bending Martin Luther King Jr. down onto a police booking desk, and in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963, when Bull Connor's police dogs (above) so savagely strained at their leashes...
...quite knows why the group in the middle of the latest armed-militia controversy calls itself the Hutaree. Even the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Ala., group that monitors militias and extremist groups, knows little about the Hutaree. Bloggers following the raids on Hutaree camps in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio over the weekend speculated that the word was made up, one that came out of the group's own invented dialect, which appears to include military ranks with bizarre names of no clear etymology (its leader, for instance, was known as Captain Hutaree, and was sometimes just called...