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Activism is Alive

Pailey, Robtel Neajai
Washington Informer
02-15-2006
For native Washingtonian Angela White, Feb. 2 was a day of reckoning.
Reminiscent of the civil disobedience struggles that racked the Civil
Rights Movement, she and a dozen other protesters defiantly sat in front of
the White House with billboard-size placards protesting the indiscriminate
killing of innocent civilians in Darfur, Sudan.

Handcuffed, she was cheered on by more than 100 demonstrators while
marching with her cane, hoping to get arrested.

"I value humanity more than I value that piece of sidewalk outside of the
White House," said White, a professor of American Studies at the Council on
Christian Colleges and Universities. She ...

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