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I nearly fell out of my chair when I got a call from the governor’s office,” he said, sitting in the VIP section of the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center at Missouri Southern State University, waiting for Obama. “They told me I would have a ticket.”Russell England

Russell England, 90, was born when the Ku Klux Klan was at its most powerful in the United States, and he lived through the Jim Crow era. He grew up in Joplin in an era when a large KKK sign lit up the roof of the Connor Hotel during Klan gatherings.From 1948 to 1952, England was the president of the Joplin chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which pushed for improvements to Ewert Park in Joplin and other changes for blacks. Joplin Globe

“This is not a distraction. This is what this campaign is going to be about,” the president said at a press conference wrapping up the NATO Summit in his hometown. Obama delved into domestic politics amid a mostly foreign-policy focused press conference in which he assured reporters that there’s a strong plan in place for Afghanistan — while admitting there’s no “optimal point” to end the war there.

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

“It’s been fun to ride with you and I’m proud to march with you all,” Shen Tong a student leader of the 1989 Chinese democracy protests in Tiananmen Square who became a tech millionaire after he was exiled to the U.S., predicted 10,000 out-of-town protesters would find their way to Chicago one way or another., one of the “bus captains” told the occupiers moments before they hit Chicago’s streets.“Let’s rock and roll!”

The arrival of the Occupy Wall Street bus, a protest group that sparked a nationwide movement against “the global one percent” marked the beginning of what is expected to be an influx of protesters for this weekend’s NATO Summit. for Friday’s “Robin Hood Tax” rally from Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Providence and Washington, D.C. Chicago Sun Times

Warning of a “prairie fire of debt,” Mitt Romney chose swing state Iowa on Tuesday to accuse President Barack Obama of failing to tame federal deficits.

“I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno,” the presumptive Republican nominee said during a speech in Des Moines, with a banner stretched behind him that blared “CUT THE SPENDING.”

“We can’t spend another four years talking about solving a problem that we know we are making worse every single day.”

The prevailing narrative in the media is that black churches are wholesale against same-sex marriage. From the 2004 elections to Proposition 8 Media outlets portrayed the recent North Carolina vote on Amendment 1 as monolithic, though many in the African-American church community opposed it. Rev. William Barber, head of the North Carolina NAACP, who preached a powerful message against Amendment 1, equating Americans’ use of the Bible to oppose same-sex marriage today with the defense of slavery and militarism in the past eras.Anthea Butler Religion Depatches

We talk with the Chicago "Ad Lady" Emma Young in Chicago.Emma is a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ.

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.