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Protest song in the digital age
The rise of the Internet and the co-incidental growth of the global justice and peace movements have revolutionized the ways in which protest music can be distributed and used as an organizing tool...(Continue Reading) Civil Rights Movement
The African-American struggle for civil rights marks a turning point in American history because it represents the period when African Americans made ......(Continue Reading)A mandate for the post-civil rights generation
More than 200 years ago, "America's founding fathers" designed a republic granting inalienable rights to a few and oppression to many. This democracy was intended for White, male, landowners. Not unt...(Continue Reading)Black and gay and hunted: in Jamaica, lesbians and gays are the victims of violent persecution—often murder. Fuelling this gay-bashing are popular
It is like living in Afghanistan under the Taliban," says Richard, a 28-year-old gay Jamaican. "I wake up in the morning not knowing whether ......(Continue Reading)Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a memorial to the Civil Rights struggle, The
On the eve of the modern-day Civil Rights Movement, Birmingham, Alabama, was a city of many complexions, complications and contradictions. The city had ......(Continue Reading)
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