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Defending the Dream: New generation takes up Martin Luther King Jr.’s torch

Hot-button issues like racial profiling, police stop-and-frisk practices, and social justice have joined global causes like immigration reform, women’s rights, and issues affecting other minority communities, suggesting a blurring of the lines between the ideological underpinnings of today’s youth-led civil rights movement and that of the 1960s. Call it Civil Rights 2.0.

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Carmen Sisson August 24, 2013 August 26, 2014Recent Bylines African-American, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, Dream Defenders, Florida, Millennials, Stand Your Ground 1

Florida’s Tropical Storm Fay survivors still waiting for recovery

Lorraine Finch stares nervously at the blue tarpaulin covering her 85-year-old mother’s roof. It’s not raining today in southeastern Florida, but as winter sets in, nighttime temperatures are dropping into the low 20s, and the worn plastic does little to shield the home from the elements. It took less than a week in August for Tropical Storm Fay to take 36 lives and leave $180 million damage throughout the state, but recovery is moving far more slowly, frustrating both residents and the organizations trying to help.

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Carmen Sisson December 1, 2008 August 24, 2014Recent Bylines disaster, Disaster News Network, Florida, Micco, tropical storm, Tropical Storm Fay, weather 0

Remembering the ‘Mighty O’

Silently, the veterans of the USS Oriskany, a Korean War-era aircraft carrier, huddled together, collars turned up against the wind, hats drawn low to hide tears as they stood on the decks of some 400 charter and pleasure boats dotting the Gulf of Mexico in a loose semicircle Wednesday morning. This was her moment, her final battle, and they were determined to do it right. Thirty-seven minutes later, she was gone, a puff of grey in an azure sky – scuttled 24 miles off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., in a 212-foot deep watery grave, where it will serve another function for a nation, as an artificial reef.

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Carmen Sisson May 19, 2006 February 26, 2013Published Favorites, Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, Florida, military, Pensacola 1
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