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The Next Civil Rights Battle

Virginia Ford still remembers the fear that gripped her when, as a 14-year-old, she watched the flames shoot from a cross in her front yard.

The year was 1964, and her father had just landed a job as one of the first black assistant superintendents in a major public school system in the area.

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Tom Minnery

It May Be Time to Reset Your Political Clock

The times they are a changin’. Or at least they seem to be. To read Candi Cushman’s cover story is to have a new appreciation for that old protest song.

Not too many years ago, it would have been inconceivable that African-Americans, once a reliable partner in the liberal political coalition, would be marching against another reliable partner in that coalition — the teachers’ unions. Such is the dramatically rising dissatisfaction with the unions’ stranglehold on public schools, whose dismal performances shortchange minority children.

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Citizen Magazine Archive

25 Jul 2010
It May Be Time to Reset Your Political Clock
The times they are a changin’. Or at least they seem to be. To read Candi Cushman’s cover story is to have a new appreciation for that old protest song.

Not too many years ago, it would have been inconceivable that African-Americans, once a reliable partner in the liberal political coalition, would be marching against another reliable partner in that coalition — the teachers’ unions. Such is the dramatically rising dissatisfaction with the unions’ stranglehold on public schools, whose dismal performances shortchange minority children.

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25 Jul 2010
The Next Civil Rights Battle
Virginia Ford still remembers the fear that gripped her when, as a 14-year-old, she watched the flames shoot from a cross in her front yard.

The year was 1964, and her father had just landed a job as one of the first black assistant superintendents in a major public school system in the area.

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1 Jun 2010
Focus Action Gets New Name
As you can see, a name change is afoot around here. We have a new label for our family advocacy arm, which has been called Focus on the Family Action since we created it in 2004. Henceforth it becomes CitizenLink, which is a name that may be better known to more of our constituents than the former name.
1 Jun 2010
Endangered Species
A billboard campaign in Georgia is educating people about abortion’s roots — and fueling a national movement aiming to end it once and for all.
1 May 2010
Changing the culture
Changing the Culture How the younger generation is making a difference. A new generation is coming into its own, poised [...]
1 May 2010
The Power of Simple Kindness
No one could have believed that a simple gift — two sticks of gum — would have helped prevent World [...]
1 Apr 2010
‘Hope and change’ succumb to truth
More and more people are becoming not just opposed to, but genuinely perplexed by, President Barack Obama. He spoke of [...]
1 Apr 2010
Standing for truth
Several years ago, the Louisville region housed 175 sexually oriented businesses. Thanks to a coalition of concerned citizens — and [...]
1 Mar 2010
On Tiger and Haiti, Christians can’t stay silent
Religion burst into the news recently in two widely divergent ways. Brit Hume of Fox News said on the air [...]
1 Mar 2010
So-called hate speech
In the U.K., hate-crimes laws increasingly are used to stifle religious speech. Is the U.S. headed in the same direction? [...]