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The 1960s

Robert Byrd

Sen. Robert Byrd sought civil rights FBI files

Lawrence Messina, Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd obtained secret FBI documents about the civil rights movement that were leaked by the CIA and triggered an angry confrontation between the two agencies in the 1960s, according to newly released FBI records...
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Octavia Spencer wins SAG supporting actress award

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Christopher Plummer of the father-son tale 'Beginners' and Octavia Spencer of the Deep South drama 'The Help' won supporting-acting honors at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal moved into general prison population

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has been moved into the general prison population for the first time since his arrest in a Philadelphia police officer's murder three decades ago...
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Herman Cain endorses Newt Gingrich

Joy-Ann Reid
TheGrio REPORT -- He may be dropping in the polls in Florida and lacking in establishment GOP support, but Newt Gingrich has one thing he can brag about going into Tuesday's primary: the support of The Hermanator...
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View of demonstrators outside the Hotel Claridge where, in the wake of the assassination of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, stalled talks between the striking sanitation union and city officials were resumed, Memphis, Tennessee, April 6, 1968. (Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

MLK, the 2012 campaign and the American dream

Lee A. Saunders
OPINION - Dr. King was a longtime champion of the labor movement, and he died in 1968 while marching with sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., all members of AFSCME Local 1733...
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Death of Florida A&M drum major ruled a homicide

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The state medical examiner's office has ruled that the death of a Florida A&M University drum major last month was a homicide after concluding that the student was severely beaten in a hazing incident and died within an hour...
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