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...Civil rights luminary Robert P. Moses gave his audience a lesson in constitutional history yesterday, tracing the expansion of American civil rights from the founding fathers to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Speaking at the Institute of Politics, Moses described early interpretations of the U.S. constitution designed to protect the rights of slaveowners, and outlined the way in which reformers from Abraham Lincoln to the activists of the 1960s had attempted to expand the notion of constitutional rights, a process he said was still not finished. “We should embrace the constitutional reach...
...fall victim to the race card and get unfairly punished. As a result of the attention paid to racism and the punishments doled out to racists, comparing other types of persecution to racism elicits uproar. Other marginalized groups, such as homosexuals or obese people, identify their causes with the civil rights struggle to gain legitimacy. But Ford cautions against comparing something like gay marriage to miscegenation. Yes, it grabs people’s attention, and it may even silence opponents, but ultimately the comparison serves to undermine everyone’s struggle for greater rights and acceptance. The playing...
...deal in 1999, when President Bill Clinton instigated a NATO bombing campaign to defend Kosovo's Albanian Muslims and defuse a refugee crisis. Tom DeLay, then the House majority whip, accused Clinton of embroiling the U.S. in a "quagmire," of "involving the U.S. military in a civil war in a sovereign nation." But that wouldn't happen to America for another four years. No, the Kosovo intervention seemed to turn out pretty well at the time. Most of the province's exiled Muslims returned home. But most of its Serbs promptly fled. And now the Serbs left behind are lashing...
...People need to see that hip-hop is more than negative and destructive,” said J-Live, a hip hop artist and participant in the discussion hosted by the Kennedy School of Government. “There’s a civil war within hip-hop. The general consciousness is at stake...
...prospect of a partition of Kosovo itself, and the potential confrontation that could ignite. The Serbian majority that lives in the northern part of the territory refuse to recognize the authority of the central government in Pristina, and insists on remaining part of Serbia. Belgrade supports the civil administration of that territory, and plans to increase spending on the Serb population there. While Belgrade said it did not order the attacks on border posts, Serbian Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardzic called them "legitimate" and "in accordance with the government's policy...