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Emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll...

In new york, and massachusetts and connecticut and rhode island and New Hampshire and across the region, 650,000 homes and businesses are without power this morning. New york mayor Michael Bloomberg urged people to stay off of the roads, but the long island expredzway is littered with cars that became stuck overnight. New england is getting the brunt of the snow with two feet of snow in boston. And Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has banned every vehicle on every road in the state. And the ...

Conservative politicians have launched attacks against the use of the word “woke.” If they knew the history of the word, they might stop wasting their time.

If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had his way, the word “woke” would be banished from public use and memory.

If Florida Gov Ron DeSantis had his way, the word “woke” would be banished from public use and memory. As he promised in Iowa in December 2023 during his failed presidential campaign, “We will fight the woke in education, we will fight the woke in the&#x...

If Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had his way, the word “woke” would be banished from public use and memory.

Conservative politicians have launched attacks against the use of the word “woke.” If they knew the history of the word, they might stop wasting their time.

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Decatur now owns the historic home of Judge James E. Horton, and the final moving date for the house should be finalized next week so it can become part of

“War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength.” So wrote George Orwell in 1984, his famous dystopian novel about authoritarian- ism. The book gave us the term “Orwellian,” describing situations where facts are ignored, truth is turned on its head, and 2+2=5. Now, almost 75 years after its publication, the United States is confronting its own brush with authoritarianism, by prosecuting former President Trump for his attempt to seize power after losing the 2020 election.