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Larry Colton's 'Southern League', integrating baseball in Alabama in 1964

Source: Cleveland.com

Ron Antonucci is an assistant editor at Etruscan Press and lives in Cleveland Heights. When the Southern Association folded after the 1961 season, due in part to its failure to integrate, organized baseball in the Deep South ...
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Lady Bird Special | Humanities Magazine | May. 1, 2013 | 19 Minutes (4,848 words)

Source: Longreads.com

Just before dawn on Tuesday, October 6, 1964, the pulled away from Track 12 at Union Station. Over the next four days, the nineteen-car train carried First Lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson on a whistle-stop tour of the South, coveri ...
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LGBT PC

Source: Outside the Beltway

Michael Kinsley devotes an entire column to the seemingly obvious idea that “Being against marriage equality doesn’t make you a monster.” The impetus is Ben Carson’s being pressured out of giving the commencement addresss at Johns Hopkins Medical School ...
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Superman, a hero with staying power

Source: Los Angeles Times

And he has done it all while wearing underpants over a full-body leotard. This true American hero is an alien from outer space who, once he reached Earth, traded in his foreign-sounding name Kal-El for a singularly A ...
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Hate Crimes

Source: Cyber Essays

Fear, anger and frustration. These are three themes that run throughout all hate groups. Most hate groups form during times of economic hardship or social change. Certain groups of people begin to blame another group for the reason of ...
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Events on Long Island

Source: The New York Times

A guide to cultural and recreational events on Long Island. Items for the calendar should be sent at least three weeks in advance to lical@nytimes.com . Film HUNTINGTON “The Other Side of Immigration ,” 2009 documentary d ...
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A MINORITY VIEW: Hating America: Some instructors teach it

Source: The Times

"We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it." That's taught to University of Hawaii students by Professor Haunani-Kay Trask. Richard Falk, professor ...
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KKK application taped to black student's locker

Source: KCCI Des Moines

A Ku Klux Klan application form has been taped to the locker of a black student at a middle school in the Des Moines suburb of Urbandale. The Des Moines Register reports that 14-year-old Dante Johnson-Ta ...
Full article at: KCCI Des Moines  More like this  6 days ago, 7:46am CDT

1 dead in overnight house fire

Source: KCCI Des Moines

Police have confirmed one death in an overnight house fire. It happened at 406 Benton Street in Boone. Emergency crews were called to the home after 3 a.m. A neighbor told KCCI 8 News that he believed the home w ...
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Group seeks name change for Brady Arts District

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A group of Tulsa residents wants to change the name of the Brady Arts District after its namesake was linked with the Ku Klux Klan . Several people went before the Tulsa City Council on Thursday and said the city shoul ...
Full article at: San Francisco Chronicle  More like this  6 days ago, 6:56am CDT


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