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Mitch PerryJune 29, 2015

In this column on Friday we wrote that Republican lawmakers (especially in Florida) should be relieved the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Obama Administration in King v. Burwell, because it took the pressure off the party and the candidates running for president to actually have to offer a legitimate alternative if millions […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 17, 2015

As taught in mainstream culture, American history propagates this nation as the womb of freedom, justice and liberty. There are American creation myths as exemplified by the “Founding Fathers.” There are founding documents as revered as biblical texts for their promise of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” That is why the argument that […]

Susan ClaryFebruary 16, 2015

I finally saw “Selma.” The Oscar-nominated film depicts Dr. Martin Luther King’s push for passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – the federal legislation that was a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement. Many protesters, both black and white, were sacrificed during the brutal efforts to make the 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 20, 2015

Fifty years after the passage of the federal Voting Right Act, speakers at today’s 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Breakfast in Tampa said it’s time to allow the hundreds of thousands of ex-felons in Florida get their right to vote restored. “This modern-day disenfranchisement and discrimination is our modern-day challenge,” said U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 16, 2015

The Mayor’s Policy Proposals Get Criticized from the Right, as His Non-Position on Courthouse Weddings Gets Critiqued Elsewhere Jacksonville’s 28th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast, held at the Prime Osborn Convention Center today, seemed like it would be a relatively anodyne affair at the outset. But this is the political season in Jacksonville and […]

Guest AuthorDecember 8, 2013

You couldn’t attend college in the ‘80s without developing a strong distaste for South Africa’s apartheid and immense respect for the political prisoner, Nelson Mandela. Our Washington, D.C, campus frequently erupted with protests calling for the university to divest from companies doing business in the white-minority led country. Groups of students from Howard University made […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.29.15 — Some GOP candidates aren’t ready to “move on” on gay marriage

Leonce Gaiter: American history is not black history

Susan Clary: Future 'Selma' will depict gay-rights struggle

Restoring voting rights for ex-felons major theme at Tampa MLK breakfast

Civil Rights (and wrongs) at Duval County MLK Jr. Breakfast

Andrew Skerritt: For my generation, Mandela was our Dr. King