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Justice At Last For Recy Taylor? (w/Updates)

• March 21, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Domestic Terrorism, Education, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Recy Taylor, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "At the Dark at the End of the Street", Abbeville Alabama, African American, African Americans, Alabama, Apology, Black Women, Blacks, Danielle McGuire, Grand Jury, Henry County, Jim Crow laws, Journal of American History, Lynching, Marriage, Montgomery Bus Boycott, PTSD, Racism, Rape, Recy Taylor, Rep. Dexter Grimsley, Robert Corbitt, Rosa Parks, The Civil Rights Movement, The Forties, The South, The Women's Movement, United States, White Supremacy

The Next to the Last Word on Bethany Storro

• September 22, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Hate Crimes, Health, Hoaxes, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "The Today Show", "The Vancouver Voice", Bethany Storro, Clark County, Deaf, Drain Cleaner, Eff Bomb, Esther Park, Extremists, Fundamentalist Christians, Hate Crime, Hearing Impaired, Innocence, Internalized Racism, KGW-TV, Lynching, Mental Illiness, NBC, Police, Portland OR, Prosecutor Tony Golik, Racism, Rational Mind, Sadness, Suicide, The Pacific Northwest, Tony Golik, Vancouver WA, White Supremacist

President Barack Obama Signs the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act

• October 29, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Class, Crime, Education, Hate Crimes, Health, History, Judy Shepard, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Actual or Perceived Gender, African Americans, American History, Barack Obama, Bisexuals, Blacks, Cremated, Disability, Disabled, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Find-a-Grave, Gays, Gender, Gender Identity, George W. Bush, Hate Crimes, History, Homophobia, James Byrd Jr., Jasper City Cemetery, Jasper City Council, Jasper TX, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Judy Shepard, Laramie WY, Lesbians, LGBT, Lynching, Matthew Shepard, President Barack Obama, Racism, Sexual Orientation, The Fence, The Matthew Shepard Act, The Matthew Shepard Foundation, The Matthew Shepard-James Byrd, The Presidency, Transgendered

Joaquim Crima, The “Russian Obama,” Finishes Third in National Elections

• October 12, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Black People, Class, Education, History, Race, Russia, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "The Russian Obama", Biology, Central Asia, Corruption, Filipp Kondratyev, Guinea-Bissau, Joaquim Crima, Lynching, MBHR, Pushkin, Racism, Russia, Srednaya Akhtuba, The Caucasus, The Moscow Bureau of Human Rights, The Real News Network, Vassily Ivanovich Crima, Volgograd University, Volvograd

Black Teen Squirted with Gasoline, Set Ablaze

• June 19, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Crime, Hate Crimes, History, Race
Tags: Gasoline, Hate Crime, Ku Klux Klan, Lynching, Missouri, Poplar Bluff High School, Poplar Bluff MO, St. Louis, Uppity, Walter Currie, Walter Currie Jr., Walter Currie Sr., White Supremacist, White Supremacy

The Killing of Brother George Tiller, M.D. (with an Update)

• May 31, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in Abortion, American Politics, Crime, Hate Crimes, Health, Religion
Tags: Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism, Civil Rights, Dave Niewert, Domestic Terrorism, Eric Rudolph, Fear, Fundamentalism, George Tiller, Hate Crime, James Adkisson, Kansas, Kathleen Sibelius, Late-Term Abortions, Liberals, Lynching, Michael Savage, Nashville TN, On The Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century, Orcinus, Progressives, Rush Limbaugh, Sara Robinson, Sean Hannity, Sherilyn Ifill, Terrorism, Unitarian Universalist

Judy Shepard Responds to Rep. Virginia Foxx’s Charge That Matthew’s Lynching was a Hoax

• May 1, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in American Politics, Crime, Hate Crimes, Judy Shepard, Public Intellectualism, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Bisexuality, Congress, Democratic Party, Gays, Hate Crimes, Homosexual Fear, House, Judy Shepard, Lesbians, LGBT, Lynching, Matthew Shepard, MSNBC, North Carolina, Rachel Maddow, Senate, Virginia Foxx

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