WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday reflected on her own family’s rise from slavery to the White House as she helped to unveil a statue of abolitionist Sojourner Truth — the first black woman to be so honored at the Capitol.
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Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, passes at 77
Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 77.
Wanda Sykes: I’m Proud to Be Gay. I Felt Attacked by Prop 8
– Associated Press – Comedian Wanda Sykes says the passage of a same-sex marriage ban in California has led to her be more outspoken about being gay.