Archive for March, 2008
Forty years later, they are old men, many with bent backs and gingerly steps. And they are taciturn, strangers to an era of confession, getting in ...
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As a recent convert from Clinton to Obama for president, I commend you for your Easter Day editorial, "Black and white," which concludes: "With ...
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As a retired lawyer, age 66, I offer a personal reflection on the turmoil the media have reported surrounding aspects of Sen. Barack Obama's speech ...
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ACCORDING to The Star (March 20), The Sheffield & District Afro-Caribbean Community Association has plans to create sheltered housing for elderly ...
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I wanted to share three of the many e-mails that I received from readers in response to my column last week about race. They reflect different ...
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America doesn't have an easy time dealing with race," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Washington Times in an interview last week. Rice ...
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My first reaction upon looking at this month's Vogue magazine cover featuring NBA star LeBron James and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen was: ...
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When Norman Daniels started out with AT&T in 1974, he faced unequal treatment and prejudice because he was black.. . The phone company was under ...
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Statistics show that African-Americans and Hispanics/Latinos have a higher risk for cardiovascular disease than Caucasians and are less aware of ...
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A federal trial is set to begin Monday in a dispute over a nightclub that was closed by law officers after it operated for only a few months in ...
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A dozen groups have thrown their support behind an alternative Africentric school, stressing it would not be segregation, as Premier Dalton ...
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Al Sharpton and the local chapter of the NAACP have gotten themselves into trouble with black women for trying to turn the Dunbar Village rape case ...
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Geraldine Ferraro sent me to the history books. Her contemptible comments about Barack Obama prompted my search through old archives and texts for ...
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Filmmaker Spike Lee, wearing his signature black baseball cap turned backward, walked into a meeting room at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with ...
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Each year, about 186,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer. . . To help detect prostate cancer earlier, Mercy Medical Center is offering free ...
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