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Hate fighters to be honored by Anti-Defamation League
Crime and Safety - Sun-SentinelTwo South Florida law enforcers are being honored for their efforts against hate crimes during the Florida Anti-Defamation League???s regional board meeting tonight. Broward Sheriff???s Capt. Rick Wierzbicki oversees the agency???s hate crimes and anti-...Tags: Palm Beach County, Fort Lauderdale, Prosecution, Boca Raton, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama at NAACP: 'Next 100 years'
The Swampby Mark Silva One hundred years ago, black boys and girls attended school separately from white boys and girls, by law, in many parts of the United States, home of the free. One hundred years ago, black men and women......Tags: Politics, Al Sharpton, Academic Progress, Advanced Training, Science and Technology
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Obama: Hate crimes, defense spending
The Swampby Mark Silva Only Congress can produce a bill authorizing $680 billion in national defense spending and extending the protections of federal hate-crime legislation to gay Americans. President Barack Obama will get to sign both today in one stroke, but......Tags: Politics, Gays and Lesbians, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Martin Luther King Jr.
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'Change:' Defense spending, hate crimes
The Swampby Mark Silva "The Pentagon is not the kind of place that can turn on a dime,'' says Defense Secretary Robert Gates, hailing the signing of a defense-spending bill that targets wasteful spending and unneeded weapons. "It will take more......Tags: Sports, Crimes, U.S. Department of Defense, National Government, Government
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Obama accepts Nobel, seeks 'just peace'
The SwampRead a full text of the president's Nobel Lecture below the fold. See the president's speech here and read the full report from Oslo, updated at the conclusion at 8:20 am EST. (Also see, below the fold, the toast that......Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, World War II (1939-1945), Getty Images Inc.
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Elie Wiesel's story endures, empowers
NEW YORK — A slender, silver-haired gentleman steps onto a nearly bare stage, the instantaneous applause continuing long after he reaches the spare wooden table awaiting him. For a moment, amid the din, he studies the audience — young and...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Manhattan (New York City), Human Interest, Judaism, Politics
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A history of genocide, as intriguingly told by imperfect actors
Oral histories are only as good as their sources. So the amateur actors researching the systematic extermination of the Herero tribe of Namibia by German colonial occupiers in and around 1907 have a crippling problem. These well-meaning thespians,...
Tags: Genocide, Massacres, Namibia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Celebrities
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Blacks share their painful stories of bias in Orange County
It was a reign of terror that reeked of rednecks and white hoods. Tires were slashed, rocks hurled through windows and acid pellets fired at the car of a black family, who finally fled their neighborhood in November after months of attacks and racial...Tags: Racism, Abusive Behavior, Law Enforcement, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice
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A young survivor of genocide takes her message around the world
At 24, Clemantine Wamariya knows more about trauma and survival than most of us ever will. If we're lucky. When Wamariya was 6, she and her sister were forced to flee the ethnic killings in Rwanda, spending the next several years in a series of African...
Tags: Human Interest, Politics, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, American Civil War (1861-1865), Human Rights
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Amish leader convicted of hate crimes in beard attacks
A leader of an Amish community in rural eastern Ohio was convicted of federal hate crimes Thursday for orchestrating the forcible cutting of Amish men's beards and Amish women's hair, a spokeswoman for U.S. District Court in Cleveland said. Sam Mullet...
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Lynching, landmark decision revisited in Lafayette College forum
The facts in the 1906 arrest, trial and lynching of Ed Johnson seem almost inconceivable now in a country that has a black man as its president and celebrates a black civil rights leader with a national holiday. Unfortunately, neither this 19-year-old...Tags: Civil Rights, Judges, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Indianapolis pastor defends controversial lynching sign
An Indianapolis pastor says it’s just a reminder. But, one glance at the get out and vote sign with two young black men hanging by a noose may take you by surprise. The pastor of Greater St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church says that’s the...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Freedom of the Press
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