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This is the true story of the emotional, spiritual and intellectual triumph of a woman who found herself unable to sacrifice her child on the altar of benighted social and religious moral convention. Regardless of the tremendous social pressure that was brought to bear, in her story's small-town setting, Rhea Murray refused to abandon her teen-age son.

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In the Name of the Father: The Rhetoric of the New Southern Baptist Convention begins with an analysis of the 1979 Southern Baptist Convention, the watershed convention where moderate forces fell before the powerful oratory of the ultraconservative faction, which has remained in power ever since. Communication professors Carl L. Kell and L. Raymond Camp investigate the rhetorical shift from moderate to ultraconservative in the...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of America's most compelling, charismatic, and yet tragic figures of the twentieth centry. He was a black man, a preacher's son himself ordained a minister, who challenged a nation's white-dominated agenda in pursuit of genuine freedom, justice, and equality for an oppressed minority.

King was winning to die for the cause, and he was a man of great faith - a devout admirer of Jesus Christ and Mahatma...

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Selected as the Opening Night Premiere at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, The Laramie Project is a groundbreaking HBO Film event that recreates the efforts of a New York theatre troupe to shed light on a western town's loss of innocence following a hate crime perpetrated on a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student. Adapted from the acclaimed play of the same name, the film features an all-star cast.

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On February 12, 2004 the City and County of San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples.

Just days after the first wedding was performed, the flowers started arriving. Flowers sent from the very heart of America, the Midwest. Flowers sent with love and support and addressed simply "To Any Loving Couple."

Experience again the joy of that one magical month when over 4000 gay and lesbian couples were united...

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Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his country.

This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.

Acclaimed actor Raul Julia (Kiss of the Spider Woman) stars as this man of...

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The Good Book is a brilliant and inspiring look at the Bible today from the preacher to Harvard University, a man Time magazine called one of the seven best preachers in America. "The theme of this book," writes Peter Gomes in his introduction, "is the risk and the joy of the Bible: risk in that we might get it wrong, and joy in the discovery of the living Word becoming flesh. It is around this theme that I formulate three...

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The Children is David Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people - the Children - who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. The Children is a story one of America's preeminent journalists has waited years to write, a powerful book about one of the most dramatic moments in recent American history. They came together as part of...

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For more than thirty years, Bayard Rustin was a major figure during the stormy adolescence of the American civil rights movement. An early advocate of non-violent passive resistance and an influential leader among such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rustin is perhaps best known as the chief organizer of the famed 1968 March on Washington. From a highly esteemed chronicler of African-American history, this biography is a compelling...

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This documentary about German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a prolific spiritual writer who challenged the churches of Germany to resist the rise of Nazism, charts his decision to join the plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

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