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While most blue laws faded into obscurity after the Revolutionary War, the temperance movement of the 1930s renewed interest in banning the Devil's Brew and reclaiming Sunday as a holy day, especially in the Bible Belt. In 1961, the Supreme Court ruled that states had the right to impose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Quirky Alcohol Laws | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

As I matured, I remained an MJ loyalist, even as he embarked on his often startling evolution: the skin-lightening, the child-molestation charges, the marriage to Lisa Marie Presley. I did not consider him a pariah. Nor did most of my black friends. That reverence was rooted in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson and the Black Experience | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

Of course, like everyone else, black men wondered about MJ's physical and mental health, and what drove him to dangle one of his kids from a German hotel room's balcony. But rarely did we air those concerns publicly. For some, it was more comfortable to remember the "old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson and the Black Experience | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

The study, conducted by South Africa's Medical Research Council, reveals a deeply rooted culture of violence against women, in which men rape in order to feel powerful, and do so with impunity, believing that their superiority entitles them to vent their frustrations on women and children. The men most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's Rape Crisis: 1 in 4 Men Say They've Done It | 6/20/2009 | See Source »

The bachelor party, however, goes back much further than you'd expect. It's rooted in ancient history - as early as the 5th century B.C. It is believed that the ancient Spartans were the first to make a celebration out of the groom's last night as a single man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bachelor Parties | 6/16/2009 | See Source »

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