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Speaking for every African-American living under the South's Jim Crow rules, Fannie Lou Hamer says she is sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Our readers were profoundly moved by John Mavroudis's href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090202/key">February 2 Obama
inauguration cover and wrote in large numbers to tell us so.
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Democrats have come a long way from the first Denver convention a century ago.

His convention speech should draw from the wisdom of black women activists who were the prophets of American democracy.

The nomination of Barack Obama--so able intellectually, morally and spiritually--marks a magic moment for America, culminating the hopes of those who worked for a more perfect union, a more peaceful world.

"Change" is this year's Democratic battle cry, but if you don't know how it happens, you're not likely to make it happen yourself.

Bringing more churchgoers into the fold poses a complex challenge for Democrats.

In June 1965 James Farmer, leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and longtime champion of Gandhian nonviolence, arrived in Bogalusa, Louisiana, to support a desegregation struggle in t

We received much mail on "American Rebels," our Independence Day
issue from the forthcoming Nation Books release edited by Jack Newfield
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