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Trayvon's death: Echoes of Emmett Till?
By John Blake, CNN (CNN) – Both were African-American teenagers who left home and never came back. Both forced the nation to talk about unwritten racial codes. Both didn’t live to see what symbols...
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America’s ‘angriest’ theologian faces lynching tree
By John Blake, CNN (CNN) – When he was boy growing up in rural Arkansas, James Cone would often stand at his window at night, looking for a sign that his father was still alive. Cone had reason to...
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Complexity in black church reactions to Obama’s gay marriage announcement
By John Blake, CNN (CNN) – After Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. first gained wide public recognition in the mid-1950s, he made a special request to evangelist Billy Graham. King was poised to join Graham...
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The voting rights martyr who divided America
Editor's note: The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week over a challenge to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The following is an edited excerpt from John Blake's 2004 book "Children of the Movement"...
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The voting rights martyr who divided America
Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt from John Blake's 2004 book "Children of the Movement" about Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit housewife who was killed while working for voting rights in Selma,...
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How MLK became an angry black man
By John Blake, CNN (CNN) - By the time Clarence Jones reached him, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in bad shape. He was unshaven, dirty and dejected. King had spent several days alone in solitary...
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