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Congressman’s son makes documentary

February 28th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Emiel Cleaver explores the Civil Rights era roots of ‘Freedom, Inc.’ Filmmaker Emiel Cleaver’s new documentary “Freedom Is Now” premiered at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library on Friday, telling the story of Kansas City’s revolutionary African-American political organization, Freedom Inc. Cleaver is the son of former mayor and current United States Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II and received his master’s degree at UMKC. Cleaver’s subject, Freedom Inc., was founded in 1961 and the documentary is used to show the success of the organization in integrating stores and restaurants in Kansas City on the social front. Politically, the group was also triumphant in increasing the size of the City Council to enable representative voices from minority neighborhoods, as well as removing the control of black voting districts away from white … Read entire article »

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Gay Rights and Civil Rights: Are they the same?

February 14th, 2012 | Add a Comment

The Gay Rights movement is presently a hot topic in politics. Some Republican candidates recognize it as the most pressing issue in America right now. Never mind the recession, health care and what seems to be the never ending economy crisis; that isn’t what this forum is about. Recently in the media and in personal blogs across the country, people have compared the Gay Rights Movement to the Civil Rights Movement of the ’60s. The question that constantly arises is, “Are the two the same?” The obvious answer is no. Never has a member of the gay community (unless they were also African American prior to the 14th Amendment) been considered three-fifths of a human in the Constitution because of his or her sexual orientation. In fact, the color of a person’s skin has … Read entire article »

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Civil Rights lawyer delivers keynote address

January 30th, 2012 | Add a Comment

The fourth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Keynote Address took place on Friday at the Student Union, attracting a diverse audience of 400. The keynote speaker of the night was Dr. Michelle Alexander, a civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and current Ohio State University professor, who teaches at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity there. Alexander presented details of her lecture, what she labels “the issue of the New Jim Crow Laws”. Alexander’s first book in 2010 is titled “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” The publication and her Soros Justice Fellowship, received in 2005, was the foundation for Alexander’s keynote address. Alexander tackled issues of wrongful imprisonment, misidentification, the struggles previously incarcerated members of the public go through to gain employment after … Read entire article »

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‘The Help’

August 29th, 2011 | Add a Comment

‘The Help’

Civil Rights flick set in the 1960s South is an instant hit “The Help,” based on the 2009 bestseller by Kathryn Stockett, is a chick-flick set in Jackson, Miss. at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in 1963. Despite its subject matter, the injustice of Southern race relations at the dawn of the civil rights movement, “The Help” is a carefully manicured, almost genteel piece of moviemaking. It quickly gained the number two spot at the box … Read entire article »

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