By Juan Cole Secretary of State John Kerry said that Edward Snowden should “return home and come back here and stand in our system of justice and make his case.” Kerry seems to have a high opinion of the Department of Justice and the US courts when it comes to national security issues. I can’t […]
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Maya Angelou: ‘Still I Rise’ (video)
Poet Maya Angelou dies at 86. Maya Angelou reads ‘Still I Rise’
Historian who Made History: Vincent Harding, Civil Rights Pioneer and King Confidant
(By Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence) Historian by profession and relentless nonviolent advocate by calling, Vincent Gordon Harding died on Monday, May 19, at the age of 83. The author of a series of books on the civil rights movement — which he called the Southern Freedom movement — he not only wrote history, but also […]