- Bill Clinton likens GOP effort to Jim Crow laws – Darren Samuelsohn – POLITICO.com
- “I can’t help thinking since we just celebrated the Fourth of July and we’re supposed to be a country dedicated to liberty that one of the most pervasive political movements going on outside Washington today is the disciplined, passionate, determined effort of Republican governors and legislators to keep most of you from voting next time,” Clinton said at Campus Progress’s annual conference in Washington.
“There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today,”…
- GOP Rep. Tim Scott Suggests Impeachment for Obama Over Debt Limit
- …Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the man who famously snubbed the Congressional Black Caucus after his election, is now suggesting that President Obama should be impeached if he raises the debt ceiling.
- The Barber of Birmingham: The Root Recommends
- …is a rousing documentary curated by Bay Area photographer Robin Fryday. In the months leading up to the election of President Obama, Fryday traveled down South, scouring the birthplace of the civil rights movement to document the 21st-century lives of those who fought for the right to vote during the height of Jim Crow.
Fryday and documentary producer-director Gail Dolgin stumble upon Birmingham, Ala., barber James Armstrong…
- Morgan Freeman: ‘African American Lives’ Video
- In an episode of the PBS series African American Lives 2 that aired in 2008, the actor uncovers shocking facts about his great-grandmother.
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