Congressman John Lewis and the white man who beat him bloody during a civil rights protest in 1961, came together to accept the Common Ground award Thursday night. “The Common Ground Awards are presented annually to honor outstanding accomplishments in conflict resolution, negotiation, community building, and peacebuilding. Recipients have made significant contributions toward bridging divides between people, finding solutions to seemingly intractable problems, and providing inspiration, and hope where often there was none.”
The reconciliation journeys of Rep. John Lewis and Elwin Wilson embody the best of these principles.

According to AP:
Elwin …

Gallup is at it again, seeking to quantify racial attitudes that are hard to measure. I’ve never been called by Gallup, but if they asked me questions regarding future racial healing, I would likely give starkly different answers depending what was going on for me at the moment. Some days I’m hopeful, some days not as much. So I wonder what was going on with these respondents when they picked up the phone?
PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that a solution to America’s race-relations problem will …

There was quite a dust up on the liberal interwebs yesterday when it was wrongly reported that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had declared he would have dissented in the landmark ‘Brown vs Board of Education’ case. As you may know the ‘Brown vs Board of Education’ decision was unanimous and it ended government sanctioned ’separate but equal’.
In truth, Scalia stated that he would have dissented from the majority in ‘Plessy v Ferguson’. ‘Plessy v Ferguson’ opened the way for Jim Crow and the institutionalization and reinforcement of racist …

Since AAR launched in March 2007, a whole lot has changed about the way we discuss racial issues in America. Two and a half years ago, the notion of a black president was most realistically relegated to Hollywood imaginings and the white knuckle reality of “24”.
But here we are. And after so much voice, heart and soul spent here in support of electing President Barack Obama, and the glorious too short afterglow of the 2008 election, racial talk is now razor sharp. I’m glad for it because I believe …