The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Several topics really stood out this week, including the Oscars as social advocacy inspiration, civil rights and Black History Month, and lots of hot news on entertainment going Green. Check out our most popular posts of the week on these subjects, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites.
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All the King's Men • Billie Jean King • Bishop James Wilkowski • Bishop Walter Righter • black history • black history month • black history month 2008 • Bob Smith • Bonnie Raitt • Brett Morgan • Bruce Vilanch • Bruce Weber • burnout • Butch Engle • carbon footprint • carbonfootprint.com • Charles Kaiser • Chicago 10 • Chicks on Speed • Chita Rivera • Christian Lacroix • Christie Hefner • Cicely Tyson • civil rights • cohen brothers • Commitment Ceremony • communities in schools • Coretta Scott King • Cornel West • Cornel West classroom • Cornel West lecture • crime • Cristina Saralegui • Dave Pallone • David Crosby • David Duchovny • Deavid Lean • Democracy Matters • Denzel Washington • Designers against aids • documentary feature • Dr. Joycelyn Elders • Dr. Simon LeVay • Dustin Hoffman • earth • ecobroker • Ed Begely jr. Living with Ed • edit • Education • EFF • Electronic Frontier Foundation • Elizabeth Taylor • Ellen Degeneres • ellen page • energy efficiency • Environment • Environmental Defense • equal rights • Evan Wolfson • Evan Wolfson Freedom To Marry • Eyespot.com • fashion against AIDS • feminist • feminist film • Fladimir Malakhov • food activism • foreign language film • Francesco Scavullo • Freedom To Marry • Freedom To Marry Week • Gandhi • gang violence • Gay • gay marriage • gender equality • George Clinton. Lupe Fiasco • Gerda Taro • Gillian Anderson • Gloria Steinem • Going green • Good Charlotte • Gothamist • green building • Gwyneth Paltrow • H & M • hal holbrook • Harlem • Harvey Fierstein • Helen Hunt • Henrick Vibskov • Herb Ritts • Hezbollah • Hillary Rettig • hip hop artists • Hip-Hop • HIV • Holt's Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act • home • home buyer • homosexuality • Honorable Jan Laverty Jones • Honorable John Burton • Honorable Mark Green • Honorable Volker Beck • Honorable Willie Brown • House • How Green Was My Valley • Il Supplente • In the Valley of Elah • inner city youth • International Rescue Committee • Into The Wild • Iran • IRC • israeli military • IVAW • Jade Jagger • Jean Paul Gaultier • Joel Grey • John Ford • John Leguizamo • John Norris • Jsutin Henry • Judie Wieder • Judith Light • Julie Dash • Julie Goldman • Julie Goldman and Kate McKinnon • Julie Goldman Gay marriage • Julie Goldman's Commitment Ceremony • Juno • Justice • Kate McKinnon • Katharine Hamnett • Kathleen Chalfant • Kathy Najimy • Kramer vs. Kramer • Laura Dern • Lawrence of Arabia • Lea Delaria • Lebanon • Leeza Gibbons • Lewis Milestone • Lily Tomlin • Living like Ed • Lucie & Raymond Aubrac • Lucie Aubrac • Lucy Lawless • Madonna • marjane satrapi • marketing • Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue • Martin Luther King • Martina Navratilova • Mary Steenburgen • mashup • Matthew Broderick • Meg Ryan • Melanie Griffith & Antonio Banderas • Melissa Etheridge • Meryly Streep • Michael Musto • Michael Pollan • Michale Emerson • middle east report • Mike Farrell • Milos Forman • Mitchell Anderson • Montgomery • Montgomery Bus Boycott • Mozart • Mtv • Muffin Spencer-Devlin • My Chemical Romance • NAACP • Neve Campbell • Never Forget 101 • New York City • No Country for Old Men • Nora Ephron & Nick Pileggi • Norman Lear • oil • oil boom • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • organic cotton • Oscar • oscar nominees • Oscars • Ossie Davis • Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee • Outkast • Outkast Rosa Parks • Outkast's Rosa Parks • Participant Productions • Patricia Nell Warren • Paul Baumer • Paul Reiser • paul thomas anderson • persepolis • Peter Francis James • Peter O'Toole • petroleum • queer • quiet strength • R.P. McMurphy • Randy Becker • Raymond Aubrac • Raymond Parks • real estate • realtor • Rebecca Luker • Refugees • remix • Rep. Rush Holt • Rep. Rush Holt's Voter Confidence and Increased Accessi • Representative John Lewis • Representative Tammy Baldwin • Rev. James Forbes • Richard Attenborougj • Rihanna • Rikki Lake • Riverside Church • Robert Benten • Robert Capa • Robert La Fosse • Robert Rossen • Rosa and Raymond Parks • rosa Parks • Rosa Parks and Raymond Parks • Rt. Rev Craig Bettendorf • Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong • Ruby Dee • Rufus Wainwright • RuPaul • Rush Holt • Salieri • same-sex couples • same-sex marriage • Sandra Bernhard • Scissor Sisters • Scottsboro Boys • segregation • shopping • short film (live action) • St Elsewhere • Stephen Bogardus • Stephen Fry • straight • Strand Book Store • stress • summer camp • Susan Sarandon • sustainability • sustainable agriculture • Ted Danson &Mandy Patinkin • Terrence McNally • The Best Years of Our Lives • The Cardigans • The Lifelong Activist • the members of Luscious Jackson • The Mother of The Civil Rights Movement • The Original Cast of Rent • The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Developme • The Rosa Parks Story • the substitute • the voting process • There Will Be Blood • Think.MTV • Tiga • Tim Robbins • Tim Robbins & Susan Sarandon • Timbaland • time management • Tom Ford • Tommy Lee Jones • UFPJ • Uganda • united national population fund • USA • valentine's day • Veterans for peace • Victor Garber • vital voices • vitalvoices.org • Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act • voting accountability • voting rights • voting transparency • War Dance • wealth discrepancy • Werner Klemperer • Whoopi Goldberg • WIlliam Wyler • Willie Stark • women empowerment • women's rights • Woody Allen • WWII • YES America • Ziggy Marley

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