Civil Rights

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State of bliss?
After a Vermont court decision, the debate over gay marriage is evolving. But will the privileges of matrimony be extended to same-sex couples?
"I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr." by Michael Eric Dyson
What would the civil rights leader think if he were alive today?
Twilight of a feminist
Susan Brownmiller talks about the golden age of ideology and when it's OK for a woman to be a sex object.
Letter from Fayetteville
Not hating the haters: The campaign for gay rights comes to Arkansas.
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously
This is the 30th anniversary of a series of tumultuous events that shaped a generation. To understand the activists of the '60s, you have to revisit 1968 and consider what it was like to those who lived through it.
Young, black and too white
Once exclusionary bastions of the negro elite, black social clubs for kids are making a comeback among middle-class parents who fear their chlidren are losing their roots.
The Salon Interview: Stanley Crouch
Author and critic Stanley Crouch offers sharp and commonsensical views on President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, multiculturalism and the American identity, Spike Lee and Johnnie Cochran.
Newsreal: Ended, not mended
By upholding California's Proposition 209, the Supreme Court effectively defeated the Clinton administration's top civil rights nominee -- and drove a huge nail into the president's "mend, don't end" affirmative-action policies.
When "civil rights" means
civil wrongs
The real carriers of the civil rights banner
are those who are helping end affirmative action.
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
The Swiss didn't just hang on to Holocaust victims' bank accounts. They used them to bankroll Hitler's war machine.
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
A new documentary explores conflict and cooperation between blacks and Jews.
Should gays join the mainstream?
Two gay readers, provoked by David Horowitz's argument that gays aren't "normal," debate whether they are -- or should be.
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