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hosted.ap.org - 10/24/2009

News from The Associated Press

— hosted.ap.org — TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Clarence Thomas, the justice long known as the silent member of the Supreme... Court, criticized his colleagues Friday for badgering attorneys rather than letting them speak during oral arguments. Thomas - who hasn't asked a ... (more) News from The Associated Press

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tuscaloosanews.com - 10/24/2009

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas visits UA

— tuscaloosanews.com — University of Alabama School of law students roared with laughter throughout Thomas' lecture Friday afternoon that was... more of a question and answer session. Thomas, 61, lowered his already deep voice and answered one question with a Nick Saban ... (more) US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas visits UA

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 28 days ago

Booker T. Washington and the Black Conservative Tradition

— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — Reading Steven Hahn on Booker T. Washington , I kept thinking that the effort to re-evaluate Washington’s... career would benefit from the concept of a “black conservative” political tradition that Ta-Nehisi Coates deployed in his ... (more) Booker T. Washington and the Black Conservative Tradition

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The Truth About Zora Neale Hurston
Matthew Yglesias — ... Damon W. Root at Reason pretty convincingly argues that African-American involvement in the mainstream conservative movement has somewhat deeper roots ...

The Black Conservative Tradition
Booker Rising — Damon Root, over at libertarian website Reason's website, writes about a recent analysis of this blog's namesake (hat tip: Adlyn Morrison): "In the latest New Republic, historian Steven Hahn has a long and very interesting review of the recent Booker T. Washington biography Up from History. As Hahn discusses, Washington famously championed economic advancement and education over political activism as the key to black equality, an approach Washington perhaps best articulated in his 'Atlanta Compromise' ...