The Civil Rights Movement is often told in terms of court decisions, brutal beatings and racist demagogues. It’s rarely told from the view of children, who suffered in ways that left emotional scars.
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The length of Booker’s speech grabbed headlines, but the senator’s media strategy helped sustain attention afterward while disrupting Trump’s public spotlight.
Last week’s record-breaking marathon speech by United States Sen. Cory Booker is important not just for what was said, but also for the way it was delivered.
Physical ailments and deteriorated health may be the one area in which politicians can escape scrutiny.
Health struggles are part of the human condition, but politicians often resist revealing full medical records. The media often help lawmakers hide their conditions. That shortchanges the voters.
Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.
Like millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson was a republican. That changed when the GOP opposed voting rights for Blacks.
Public opinion on the flag may have shifted with lightning speed, but how did it hold on as long as it did? The answer has to do with how it served both Democratic and Republican parties alike.
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