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Opinion: The Unbearable Earnestness of Harry Reid

(Feb. 2) -- Some people simply don't know when to leave well enough alone. Just when the country got over its knee-jerk overreaction to a politically incorrect statement in light of more important news, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has decided to give the country another chance to reignite conversation over his bouts with...

Opinion: Reid, Rage and Race

(Jan. 12) -- Conventional wisdom says I should be boiling over in sheer rage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had the audacity to say during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama was a light-skinned African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." To quote the great...

Civil Rights Hero to Begin Serving Prison Sentence

(Jan. 4) -- Bobby DeLaughter, the prosecutor who secured the conviction in the infamous Medgar Evers Mississippi murder case, is himself now headed to prison. It was DeLaughter's dogged 1994 prosecution and the subsequent conviction of Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith that helped trigger the reopening of dozens of...

FBI Makes Plea in Civil-Rights Cold Cases

(Nov. 19) -- Many decades later, the FBI still holds out hope of solving dozens of unsolved racially motivated civil rights-era murders. On Wednesday at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., FBI Civil Rights Unit Chief Cynthia Deitle announced that the agency was looking for help locating next of kin in 33 cold cases,...

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08/11/11 Trouble with The Help: White Voices in Blackface Source: Forbes My summer reading list includes The Help. I picked it up in July when I was at the beach but put it back down in favor of Kiri Blakeley's Can't Think Straight because the black dialect in The Help irritated me.
08/10/11 REVIEW: Performances, subject matter overcome flaws in... Source: Suburban Journals - St. Louis MO "The Help" is a good movie that could have been a great movie; which for a critic can actually be more frustrating than watching a flat-out terrible movie.
01/17/11 Oscar-winning actress will be author Source: Detroit Free Press - Detroit MI Six Oscar nominations, including a best actress trophy.
01/13/11 Sissy Spacek puts on her writing shoes for 'Barefoot... Source: USA Today Isn't that enough to turn an accomplished actress into a red-carpet diva?
12/22/10 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal: Will there be... Source: The Christian Science Monitor President Obama on Wednesday signed into law a historic bill that will reverse the ban on gay men and women serving openly in United States military forces.