Browsing all posts tagged with Civil Rights.

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Hernández v. Texas

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

IN 1951 IN THE TOWN OF EDNA, TEXAS, a field hand named Pedro Hernández murdered his employer after exchanging words at a gritty cantina. From this seemingly unremarkable small-town murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans.

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After the Morning After, After the Night Before . . . [AAP#1]

Monday, November 10th, 2008

MOYA BAILEY: I don’t feel victorious. I don’t feel like we won. I do think that these sentiments are particularly interesting after the early press spin that asked whether Barack was black enough and black people were ambivalent about the answer. Now he’s one of us, our hero, our modern day Martin and Malcolm….