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Matriarch of racially mixed marriages dies
U.S. Supreme Court overthrew bans after Mildred [and Richard] Loving challenged law
Interesting quotes:
“There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause,” the court ruled in a unanimous decision.
“The law that threatened the Lovings with […]

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“Mike Connery on why progressive leaders should stop lamenting ‘youth apathy’ and start engaging the most diverse, tolerant, generation in history.”
A must read interview at AlterNet: “Ignore the Youth Vote at Your Own Peril” is about more than just the 2008 Presidential Election, it’s about the future.

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From The Brad Blog: ‘Daily Voting News’ for May 2, 2008
“Yesterday Cuyahoga Co announced that in preparation for a lawsuit against Diebold/Premier they were going to have their old DRE voting system inspected by Systest Labs. This is a clear conflict of interest because Systest is presently testing the new Premier Assure voting system for […]

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“The White House was built by slave labor… It is going to be a black man to go into the White House for the first time in the history of the country.”
– The Rev. Fitzhugh Lyons, president of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, in describing the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign as “history-making.”
Note: Barack Obama is the […]

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The Cliff Schecter blog announces that on May 2, 2008 some prominent Republicans will be coming out endorsing Barack Obama. This is major. http://agonist.org/schecter/?p=9525 What’s even more powerful is a comment to the announcement left by a “Kim” who describes one of the propsed endorsees:
“Prominent Indiana Republicans Endorsing Obama”
Kim, on May 2nd, 2008 […]

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