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• Slidell boy will be allowed to keep his braid; religious custom trumps St. Tammany Parish school rules 3:00 p.m. CT
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History's made, and Kings want a cut
When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, his chief concern was economic justice. He had come to the realization that civil rights laws, in and of themselves, were not going to be enough to change the lives of the oppressed and that it was therefore necessary for him to wage a "Poor People's Campaign."
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Mayor hasn't learned his lesson
As Election Day approached and the GOP's vice-presidential candidate was touting her qualifications as former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, television's funniest fake news show went to that small town to find out what its current mayor does.
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Klan is still no laughing matter
In D.W. Griffith's 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation," a white woman chooses to jump from a cliff rather than be raped by a black man, and the Ku Klux Klan is the heroic cavalry that pays that man back by lynching him.
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Sorry, FEMA hasn't earned applause yet
It was brought to my attention last week that I had not been fair to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and that my column criticizing the agency for its laggard pace in Southeast Texas failed to mention what a good job FEMA is doing.
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Voices of yearning, heard at last
Bea Rill had no jokes.
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JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES
Our Mississippi town was tiny. So in 1986 when my daddy said, "Your mama's cousin is in a movie," it meant piling into the car and driving over to Memphis, Tenn., to see it.
