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...panelists included VIBE magazine writer/research editor Ayana Byrd, New York-based Reverend James A. Forbes Jr., Honey magazine founder Kierna Mayo, hip-hop political organization A Movement for Change founder Conrad Muhammad and Ahmir "Brother ?uestion" Thompson, co-founder of the hip-hop group The Roots...
...combined defense arguments were compelling enough to trigger some quick shifting of strategy on both sides of the aisle. The clever Democratic ploy of enlisting West Virginia's Robert Byrd to offer a motion to dismiss "was a bombshell," as a Republican Senator put it. Any list of possible Democratic defectors always had Byrd's name at the top. "If Byrd is now offering a vote to dismiss, conviction really is dead...
...them already belong. He has set up an 800 number for mariners in need of emergency pastoral care far from home, and in three months has logged 7,000 land miles in his white Ford Escort, recruiting shoreside ministers to respond. Boarding the Grainger at the Robert C. Byrd lock in West Virginia, he forgoes preaching in favor of hearing the crew's news and distributing the prayer schedule of the institute's tiny Paducah, Ky., chapel: the boatmen can join in as their work shifts and the river permit. When one deckhand stabbed another in Paducah in November...
...senators listened to their most respected historian, Robert Byrd, warn them that they too were on trial. The President had sullied the presidency; the House had fallen "into the black pit of partisan self-indulgence." The Senate needed to lift its eyes to higher things. Byrd quoted Ben Franklin, the Federalist papers, even Chaucer. Then the deal guys saved...
...state. Baby boomers turned toward religion. Increasingly the country turned away from gay bashing and other low-life thinking, as was indicated by the national revulsion at the beating to death of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo. No one was more repelled by the truck-dragging murder of James Byrd Jr., a black man in Jasper, Texas, than Texans themselves...