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The article offers the author's insights on the significance of August 28 in the history of African-American struggle. He says that on the said date in 1955, 14-year-old Emmet Till was kinapped and killed, marking the launch of the Civil Rights Movement in America. It says that Senator Strom Thurmond held a filibuster to obstruct the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He suggests that Americans should stay involved in the struggles by participating in the November 2012 elections.

The Justice Department, in an abrupt change in policy from the Bush administration, is preparing to bring terrorism-related charges against a man identified as an operative of Al Qaeda who has been held in a military brig for more than five years, government officials said Thursday. The charges would move the case of the only enemy combatant to be held on American soil, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, into a civilian criminal court. The Bush administration had argued that he could be held indefinitely without being charged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Civil Rights Act was a turning point in the decades-long struggle against segregation and discrimination. When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation into law on July 2, 1964, America took one step closer to becoming a country which truly judges not by the color of skin but by the content of character. However, the Civil Rights Act was not something that simply happened, nor was it something that happened simply. It was one step in a long and difficult Civil Rights Movement, one stained with the blood and built upon the sweat of those Americans whose dedication to liberty and equality was stronger than that to their own self-preservation. America celebrates 40th anniversary of the Act in 2004.

Comments on the right to vote. History of the voting behavior in the United States; Experiences of the people in fighting for their right to vote; Impact of the contested elections in Florida.

Comments on the arrest of several people for protesting police misconduct and brutality in the case of Amadou Diallo, an immigrant who was killed in New York City, New York. Reaction of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on the daily demonstrations at police headquarters in the city; Discussion on the history of civil rights.

Discusses the constitutional rights of the people against congressional mandates. Effects of federal mandates on state spending; Application of the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution; Advocacy to state governments for the formation of Conference of the States to prevent federal interloping.