Tagged: Race and Religion
CONGRESSIONAL POLITICS Dallas, TX: Frost’s appeal to Jews offends some Democrat Martin Frost believes that when Republicans tried to slam the door on his 26-year congressional career, they mistakenly opened a window. In destroying...
A Graphic Film of Protest, and Cries of Blasphemy The New York Times September 27, 2004 By MARLISE SIMONS Carla Rus, a Dutch psychiatrist, said she had worked for 20 years with abused women...
In the Bible Belt, Acceptance Is Hard-Won The Washington Post by Anne Hull Michael Shackelford slides under his 1988 Chevy Cheyenne. Ratchet in hand, he peers into the truck’s dark cavern, tapping his boot...
The demise of the SCLC By Cynthia Tucker August 9, 2004 ATLANTA – The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the venerable civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his lieutenants,...
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Brando’s Jews July 9, 2004 The Forward is a major Jewish newspaper in New York City The death of Marlon Brando last week revived painful memories of the actor’s controversial appearance on...
Apparently the Mormon Church had a “one drop” policy until they expanded into Latin America. Too many of those mulattoes didn’t know they were supposed to be “black” and the “white” Mormons weren’t about...
Nathan Newman on HalfJew.com and the concept of multiracial communities online: It’s interesting that in a multi-cultural world, halfbreeds, previously marginalized as lacking any identity (and I definitely fall into that existential camp) are...