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dodged sniper fire on a trip to war-torn Bosnia as first lady twelve years before. She is apparently attempting to distinguish herself as more battle-ready than her opponent, Barack Obama. However, I had accompanied Clinton on that trip to Bosnia as a reporter in 1996. There had been no sniper fire.

The news coverage given to Brock’s fake news focus provides fresh evidence of how he’s truly set himself apart in the smear industry. As a political operative, he seems able to pick up the phone or send an email and get his message covered in outlets ranging from Politico to the New York Times. There are no other liberals or conservative counterpar

If Perkins, the Progressive turned New Dealer, spent her life addressing problems left behind by Greeley’s Civil War generation—corporate power, exploited labor, political corruption, poverty—Rustin spent his battling injustices that the New Deal generation didn’t address: racism, segregation, and the threat of militarism to world peace. No one in

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Highlander was integrated, pro-union, committed to nonviolent resistance, and often accused of being “communist.” As time unfolded, the center of gravity of social movement shifted, and Highlander maintained itself as a space that allowed integrated meetings to take place—a rarity in the South—and became a site for developing strategies for the fre

It also illustrates his awareness of the continued fear that existed in many black communities all over the United States as the Civil Rights Movement grew and expanded. Black lives were on the line daily, and many were subjected to abuse and even death.

Nnamdi Azikiwe was a miner in West Virginia, and as an activist in Nigeria, he stood with miners against colonial authorities.