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    A Less Perfect Union: Is Racism Now Socially Acceptable?

    JULY 12, 2012 10:27AM

    By Jaime Franchi


    Topics: politics open call, mitt romney, open call, obama, reverend wright, sarah palin, rush limbaugh, naacp

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    When it rains, it pours: NAACP now OK with same-sex marriage

    MAY 20, 2012 4:53PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: politics, family, gay/lesbian, belief/religion, william saletan, same-sex marriage, proposition 8, prop 8, president barack obama, politics, ohio, obama, national association for the advancement of colored people, naacp, marriage, lgbt, lesbians, jesse jackson, human rights, hope, homophobia, hiv, george w. bush, gays, gay rights, gay community, fourteenth amendment, equality, equal rights, equal protection clause, civil rights, change, california, black homophobia, black homophobes, black community, bigots, bigotry, benjamin todd jealous, barack obama, al sharpton, aids

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    Business and Rights Groups Are Growing Wary of the Tea Party

    OCTOBER 17, 2010 10:25PM

    By Steven J. Gulitti


    Topics: tea party movement, 2010 elections, meet the press, institute for research and education on human rights, naacp, joe miller, chrisitne o'donnell, jim demint, tea party nationalism, politics

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    John Hope Franklin (1915-2009): Fighter for Justice

    MARCH 26, 2009 3:44PM

    By Michael Fox


    Topics: african american history, african americans, american historians, american history, brown v. board of education, civil rights, civil rights movement, dr. john hope franklin, duke university, historians, history, integration, john hope franklin, martin luther king, martin luther king jr., medal of freedom, montgomery bus boycott, naacp, national association for the advancement of colored people, oklahoma, selma to mongomery march, tulsa riot, tusla race riot, university of oklahoma, books, news

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