Coretta Scott King will be long remembered as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the noted Baptist minister, Nobel Peace Laureate, and renowed Civil Rights activist. But long before she met Dr. King, she was fighting battles of racial segregation, racism, and discrimination along with her parents in Marion, Alabama, where her father owned and operated a small trucking farm. His farm had become too successful, and was destroyed by resentful Whites in Alabama who couldn't not stomach the idea of a Black family getting ahead of the heart of Dixie that didn't have a heart. Long before she was noted as the founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change in Atlanta, advis...

Let's Not Apply the Term 'Marriage' to Same-Sex Unions It is neither logical nor fair, in my view, for civil society to give financial benefits to persons who cannot perform the task for which the financial benefits are given. That is why I oppose the term “marriage” to same sex unions. For every “ ...

I am an African American who grew up in segregated Norfolk, Virginia. As the seventh of thirteen children, I was also first in my family to go to an integrated school in 1965. Both my parents had grown up in families of sharecroppers in North Carolina. My mother completed the eighth grade and my fat...

On the 11th of November, Yasser Arafat, the prime minister of Palestine who played a pivotal role in this century's Middle East conflict, died at age 75. For 40 years Mr. Arafat was at the center of the Palestine Liberation movement. His death could be the catayst for significant change, and eventua ...

Man: What is a million years like to you? God: Like one second. Man: What is a million dollars like to you? God: Like one penny Man: Can I have a penny? God: Just one second....

Coretta Scott King will be long remembered as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the noted Baptist minister, Nobel Peace Laureate, and renowed Civil Rights activist. But long before she met Dr. King, she was fighting battles of racial segregation, racism, and discrimination along with her paren ...

President Bush was re-elected with 286 votes in the Electoral College, 15 beyond the minimum and with a margin of the popular vote of over 3.5 million. Republicans made gains among women, Roman Catholics and Latinos according to Bush campaign director Ken Mehlman. Consider the percentage gains in th...