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Marines in Afghanistan and Republican hate culture

January 18, 2012 By PW Editorial Board

The scandal that broke last week over U.S. Marines urinating on dead Afghanis is not simply a case of a few "bad apples," or "bad management" up the chain of command.

Freedom is a constant struggle: Birmingham’s MLK march (with video)

January 18, 2012 By Scott Marshall

Birmingham honors the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (video)

The dream today

January 13, 2012 By PW Editorial Board

Forty-eight years after his "I Have a Dream" speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would be furious.

French Quarter curfew targets Black youth, critics charge

January 13, 2012 By Blake Skylar

Due to a new law passed in New Orleans, in the French Quarter children 16 and younger must obey an 8 p.m. weekend curfew, replacing a previous curfew of 11 p.m.

He is gone from you now … reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 9, 2012 By Sotere Torregian

"Around 1968," Jackson says, "my parents were working at pretty good jobs, in a factory. Now there are no more jobs. What would Dr. King think of that?"