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Leon Howell
Leon Howell is author of Freedom City: The Substance of Things Hoped For, about the National Council of Churches' civil rights engagement with Mississippi.
Judgment Days
Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr....
Sexual Violence and American Manhood
Sexual violence against women—pervasive in our society—is largely hidden, as in the oppressive presence of date rape on university campuses....
Using Private Lynch: The making of a myth
Jessica Lynch resists America’s desire to call her a war hero. “They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff,” Lynch told Diane Sawyer during a television interview on Veteran’s Day....
Wages of reform: Welfare policy: A six-year report
Six years after Bill Clinton signed into law a controversial bill ending “welfare as we know it,” Congress is debating how to extend or revise the welfare program....
The Muslim voice: Rising political engagement
When 25 Muslims walked out of a meeting at the White House last month, the Bush administration had an embarrassing but correctable public relations problem on its hands....
Boycotting pickles: A labor strategy in North Carolina
Forty years after Harvest of Shame, Edward R. Murrrow’s great documentary on the exploitation of migrant workers, the shame endures....
Ups and downs of the Religious Right: Divisions and personalities
It’s a puzzle: the Christian Coalition is fighting off extinction, but the Religious Right seems as powerful as ever....
Farm worker victory: Mushroom farmers lead the way
When United Farm Workers organizer Frank Curiel answered the phone in mid-December, he had just come from Quincy Farms, which each year produces 25 million pounds of white button mushrooms and 500,...
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