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...Kinsley's essay "God is Black" made a strong argument that the presence and voices of James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman have influenced how America hears the voice of truth and authority [Jan. 26]. But there were others who set the stage. We cannot ignore the influence of Southern-raised black televangelists. And even more so, James Weldon Johnson's famous poem "The Creation," which is written in the black idiom: And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world. Paul Moore, North San Juan, Calif...
During his law-school days, Fuller sold everything from rat poison to cookbooks with classmate Morris Dees, who later co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center. Although the pair raked in the dough--both became millionaires by age 29--Fuller's obsession with amassing wealth pushed Linda away; in the '60s she left with their two young children and considered divorce...
...called himself the "Jackie Robinson of journalism." Robert Churchwell Sr., 91, became the first African American at a major Southern newspaper after joining the Nashville Banner...
...overseen by a government agency that can revoke a doctor's license or close a clinic and sets age limits for fertility treatments. "Would we write laws limiting the size of someone's family to six?" asks Richard Paulson, director of the fertility program at the University of Southern California. "Would we write laws mandating selective reduction?" he asks, referring to the option of aborting some embryos if a high number of them successfully implant in the uterus...
Both of these were northern-based movements and spurred the growth of the Republican Party, which promoted federal support for the northern economy and opposed the spread of slavery, culminating in the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 and the secession of the southern states...