Protest News
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TheGrio's 100: Bill T. Jones, activism through movement
9:00 AM on 02/03/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Some choose to protest with marches and picket signs. Bill T. Jones chose dance...
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The sit-ins that changed America
12:06 PM on 02/02/2010
From The LA Times: Of the big events of the early civil rights movement, the sit-ins have always been the least understood and, yet, the most important for today's young activists...
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TheGrio's 100: Kara Walker, activism through art
5:00 AM on 02/01/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Political protest through art has always been a way of life for Walker...
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Asian students protesting alleged racism from African-American students
3:00 PM on 12/08/2009
Investigators say 30 Asian American students at South Philadelphia High were assaulted last week by a group of African American students.
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KKK rally briefly before LSU-Ole Miss game
5:20 AM on 11/22/2009
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU...
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Precious director may march to Selma
12:12 PM on 11/18/2009
FROM THE GUARDIAN> It is the Alabama town forever associated with the civil rights struggle after state troopers clubbed and tear-gassed activists as they tried to march on the state capital, Montgomery, 54 miles away. Now the story of the historic marches from Selma in 1965, which led to legislation...
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Museum to preserve Woolworth's lunch counter - and legacy of civil rights fight
9:00 AM on 11/17/2009
OPINION - Does the current rise of minorities in American society signify the end of a fight for civil equality?
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School kids singing Obama song are inspired, not indoctrinated
9:00 AM on 10/13/2009
OPINION - Much political hay has been made over the video of the New Jersey school children singing about President Obama...
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Obama song video prompts protests at NJ school
2:39 PM on 10/12/2009
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - It's an elementary school where students were seen in a video from earlier this year, singing a song in praise of President Barack Obama...
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Black working class gays left out of national gay rights agenda
9:00 AM on 10/12/2009
OPINION - When Obama delivered his "gay agenda" speech to the well-fed, well-scrubbed mostly white crowd of gays and lesbians...
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NAACP holds rally in Rockford, calls for new investigation in shooting
7:17 AM on 10/04/2009
NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous returned to Rockford on Saturday for his second rally in the city about 90 miles northwest of Chicago...
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Giant banner of Obama as the Joker angers NAACP
7:39 AM on 09/29/2009
VIDEO - Emotions run high at a protest over a banner that depicts President Obama as the joker from batman. Some call it racist and disrespectful...
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Black Pittsburgh struggles in the shadow of the G-20
9:27 AM on 09/25/2009
OPINION - For the most part, African-American Pittsburgh seems to be invisible, not only to the public relations hucksters who tout Pittsburgh's successes, but we are equally invisible to the protesters.
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Pittsburgh protesters aren't looking for another Seattle
8:55 AM on 09/24/2009
There have been concerns that more militant outfits are seeking the kind of carnage witnessed in Seattle, and the city government has acted cautiously...
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Anti-Obama protesters' concerns aren't racist, they're real
9:25 AM on 09/15/2009
OPINION - Democrats, including President Obama, have sought to cast the growing resistance to a government-run plan as the product of conservative fever swamps...
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Same-sex couples stage 'kiss-in' to protest treatment at diner
12:15 PM on 08/20/2009
VIDEO - Dozens of same-sex couples locked lips inside a popular Maryland diner Wednesday to protest the treatment of a lesbian couple there.
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Black man brings assault rifle to Obama speech
6:28 PM on 08/18/2009
VIDEO - About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday...
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Black man assaulted at town hall meeting
8:23 AM on 08/12/2009
There has been a lot of buzz about Kenneth Gladney and the events that surround a scuffle outside a town hall meeting August 6th. There seem to be a few sides to this story. Here's the video that started all the discussion. Some reports have Gladney "handing out" Gadsden flags...
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Protesters demand Gov. Jindal accept federal stimulus money for Louisiana (video)
6:11 PM on 05/27/2009
Baton Rouge, LA - A group of protesters are angry that Governor Bobby Jindal has decided not to accept all of the federal stimulus money. The Concerned Citizens Coalition rallied on the steps of the state capitol this morning. They say they want to stop budget cuts on everything from...
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