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Skinhead Plot to Assassinate Obama Stopped
For many Obama supporters, Monday’s arrest of two white supremacist skinheads accused of planning to assassinate Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama was too close for comfort. After Senator Hillary Clinton’s comment about the possibility of assassination during the Democratic primaries and Obama’s need for protection from the Secret Service very early into his campaign, this [...]
The mountaintop
MLK was assassinated today, 40 years ago. He was a mere 39-years-old. He had gone to Memphis to support black garbage collectors— ie, the sanitary public works employees who had been on strike for a month, the work conditions they faced every day unbelievably horrific, men getting crushed in compactors that they were forced to [...]
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