More than 5,000 people followed Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma’s annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. The event commemorates the “Bloody Sunday” beating of voting rights marchers — including a young Lewis — by state troopers as they began a march to Montgomery in March [...]
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Top Story — President Obama Lays Out Democratic Vision
EVERY DEMOCRAT and progressive had to thoroughly enjoy the Inauguration of President Obama. It was a marvelous ceremony, and the star of the whole day was just as much First Lady Michelle Obama and her high fashion statement, as the President himself. As for President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, it was a manifesto for what [...]
Queer Talk: Seneca, Selma and Stonewall
Widely quoted on LGBT blogs, and at least for me, by a lot of Facebook friends, is this line from President Obama’s Inauguration Day / Martin Luther King Day speech (via AmericaBlogGay: We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star [...]
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