HUFFINGTON POST, January 5, 2012 -- MSNBC contributor and political analyst Melissa Harris-Perry will host her own show for the network starting in February.
Harris-Perry tweeted the news on Thursday, and wrote that her new show will follow Chris ...
Posted Thursday, January 5th 2012 at 12:44PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, January 3, 2012 — On the rough-edged streets of Harlem in the 1940s, the young Walter Dean Myers knew better than to carry his library books where other children could see them.
“I was teased if I brought my books home,” said Mr. M ...
Posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 at 10:59PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, January 2, 2011 -- He was buried after the Sept. 11 attacks with full honors from the New York Police Department, and proclaimed a hero by the city’s police commissioner. He is cited by name in the Patriot Act as an example of Muslim- ...
Posted Monday, January 2nd 2012 at 10:00PM
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by David Frum, CNN, January 2, 2012 -- Monday is the second day of the year, which means millions of Americans have started new diets. They resolved to lose weight, get in shape, and they are starting strong.
Sadly, the odds are that almost all ...
Posted Monday, January 2nd 2012 at 11:38AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 1, 2012 -- Despite recent accusations of racism and homophobia, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) stuck to his libertarian principles on Sunday, criticizing the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 becaus ...
Posted Sunday, January 1st 2012 at 8:52PM
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THE LAST WORD, December 28, 2011 -- Lawrence O'Donnell shares clips from interviews Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul gave to comic Sacha Baron Cohen. Hilarity and mayhem ensue.
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Posted Saturday, December 31st 2011 at 12:19PM
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By Amy Goodman, ALTERNET, December 29, 2011 -- All eyes are on Iowa this week, as the hodgepodge field of Republican contenders gallivants across that farm state seeking a win, or at least “momentum,” in the campaign for the party’s presidential nomi ...
Posted Saturday, December 31st 2011 at 12:05PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, December 30, 2011 -- So what’s the deal with Romney’s tax returns? Or more specifically, what’s the deal with Mitt Romney letting himself get more and more nippy press by refusing to release his tax returns when virtually every s ...
Posted Saturday, December 31st 2011 at 12:00PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, December 29, 2011 --2011 is drawing to a close, which means it is now time to report year-end ratings for cable news shows. As in previous months and years, Fox News dominated the list. Just like November, Fox News programs held on t ...
Posted Friday, December 30th 2011 at 2:27PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, December 29, 2011 -- History has caught up to Michele Bachmann. And it seems determined to make her a comical footnote in the 2012 presidential nomination fight.
We’re about as far away from Bachmann’s surprising win at the Am ...
Posted Thursday, December 29th 2011 at 12:05PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, December 28, 2011 -- Last week the Justice Department blocked a South Carolina law that would require voters to produce photo identification at the polls. Now a similar Texas voter ID law could very well be next to face a legal chall ...
Posted Thursday, December 29th 2011 at 11:53AM
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MSNBC, December 28, 2011 -- Al Sharpton laid into Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin for, according to Sharpton, spewing 'bogus claims' on Fox News' morning show "Fox and Friends."
Wisconsin citizens have been gathering signatures in an ...
Posted Thursday, December 29th 2011 at 11:34AM
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THINK PROGRESS, December 28, 2011 -- The New York Times today has a quick run down of the biggest applause lines Rick Perry receives out on the campaign trail in Iowa. The Times reports that the crowd at one of Perry’s speeches “perked up” when the T ...
Posted Wednesday, December 28th 2011 at 12:40PM
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MSNBC, December 27, 2011 -- Rachel Maddow discussed what she believed was the strong impact Fox News has on Republican voters and Republican candidates during her show Tuesday night.
Maddow was referring to what she called the "Murdoch primary," w ...
Posted Wednesday, December 28th 2011 at 12:23PM
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By Monique Ruffin, HUFFINGTON POST, December 28, 2011 -- The civil rights issue of our time is gay marriage, and the key players in our country's most significant civil rights movement are on the wrong side of it. The black church has taken on a new ...
Posted Wednesday, December 28th 2011 at 12:10PM
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CNN, December 22, 2011 -- David Margolick’s latest book, “Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock,” explores what happened to two teenagers captured in one of the civil rights movement’s most iconic photos.
Elizabeth Eckford was one of nine ...
Posted Monday, December 26th 2011 at 1:31PM
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By PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES, December 23, 2011-- Suppose that President Obama were to say the following: “Mitt Romney believes that corporations are people, and he believes that only corporations and the wealthy should have any rights. He wants t ...
Posted Friday, December 23rd 2011 at 11:00AM
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by David Gergen, CNN, December 22, 2011 -- Even though House Republicans are now wisely folding their tents, their disarray this week over extending a payroll tax cut has left a sour taste at year's end in Washington, contributing in no small part to ...
Posted Thursday, December 22nd 2011 at 7:22PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, December 22, 2011 -- Real estate mogul Donald Trump continued to make the case for a potential third party presidential run Wednesday night, claiming that if he entered the race as an independent it would be he, not President Obama o ...
Posted Thursday, December 22nd 2011 at 1:35PM
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POLITICS NATION, December 20, 2011 -- Rev. Al Sharpton takes us back to the turning point in the history of voting rights in the US--Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettis Bridge.
Rep. John Lewis was there that day and explains why the fight for the ...
Posted Wednesday, December 21st 2011 at 10:08AM
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POLITICS NATION, December 20, 2011 -- IN Wisconsin, 470,000 voters do not have the proper documentation to allow them to vote. Rev. sharpton discusses legal remedies to the Block the vote campaign. ...
Posted Wednesday, December 21st 2011 at 9:57AM
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THINK PROGRESS, December 20, 2011 -- Nearly ten days ago, hardware giant Lowe’s caved to right-wing pressure and pulled its ads from TLC’s reality show about Muslim life in America. Following that decision, a storm of controversy has enveloped the co ...
Posted Tuesday, December 20th 2011 at 10:07AM
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THINK PROGRESS, December 19, 2011 -- No one has benefited more from wealthy donors seeking to influence the 2012 presidential race than Mitt Romney. As of last August, Romney received more lobbyist contributions than the rest of the GOP field combine ...
Posted Monday, December 19th 2011 at 6:17PM
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THINK PROGRESS, December 17, 2011 -- The Florida Family Association has managed to do a lot of damage with its All-American Muslim boycott over the last week and a half, whether by convincing companies like Lowe’s and Kayak to absolutely humiliate th ...
Posted Saturday, December 17th 2011 at 9:13PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, December 15, 2011 -- Education policies that affect millions of students have long been tied to test scores, but a new paper suggests those scores are regularly misinterpreted.
According to the new research out of Mathematica, a s ...
Posted Saturday, December 17th 2011 at 2:57PM
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