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How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement

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By Brent Staples Verified
| Portside
How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement Published February 12, 2026 The New York Times war correspondent David Halberstam caught the pulse of his era when he observed, in 1964, that there were parallels between America’s misbegotten adventure in Vietnam and the struggle for civil rights in the murderous, Klan-infested state of Mississippi.
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Book Review: ‘The War Within a War,’ by Wil Haygood

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By Brent Staples Verified
| The New York Times Verified
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement Wil Haygood’s “The War Within a War” is a rare, illuminating look at the way the war shaped the struggle for equality back home.
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Opinion | ‘There’s a Big Market for Fighters Now’: Four Opinion Writers on the Democratic Party and Andrew Cuomo

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By Mara Gay Verified, Brent Staples Verified, Nicole Gelinas, Andrew Kirtzman
| businessandamerica.com
Gelinas: “Corporeal vacancy” is such a great term! Staples: Nicole, thanks for the shout-out to my 12th-grade English teacher, Ms. Riley. Kirtzman: To Brent’s point, polls have found vast numbers of New Yorkers feel the city is going in the wrong direction. And fear of crime is, arguably, the No. 1 driver of that. I was on a stalled subway train recently, trapped in a tunnel for five to 10 minutes as a large, deranged man screamed at us.
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