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...Fallon added that Klarman—who won the Bancroft Prize, the most prestigious prize for American historical writing, for his 2005 book “From Jim Crow to Civil Rights”—will add a new perspective on the role of the Supreme Court...
...line of over 450 students from the Middlesex School—snaking from the very back of Sever Hall to the front steps of Memorial Church—marched across Harvard Yard yesterday in commemoration of the birth of civil rights leader Martin Luther King...
Although the procession by students of the elite boarding school called to mind the protests of King’s era, the students’ organizer said their queue was “no flair of civil disobedience...
...what Americans are yearning for right now. They're tired of the bickering, and they want a new way of doing things in Washington." The G.O.P. presidential hopefuls, intentionally or not, seemed to pick up on that in their debate at Florida Atlantic University last Thursday, displaying a more civil tone than the recent spats between Obama and Hillary Clinton - though the name-calling and nastiness between Romney and McCain in the last couple of days put an end to that civility...
...Nobody's better than him. What's amazing is his voice has all the power of 30, 40 years ago. He is at the heart and soul of the Democratic Party - the belief in civil rights, the belief in opportunity for all people, in upward mobility, in caring for the least of these, a vision that extends beyond our shores. And he speaks to a vision in which we are a beacon for those who are still trapped in poverty or oppression. To have him offer such a powerful endorsement I think will mean a lot. Obviously, there are people...