My interest grew, and I took a couple of classes and learned how to operate a camera. Finally I was worthy of getting hit on the head with the bars and tone tape, making me an official ACTV volunteer. (Now maybe that was just done special...
02 February 2000
The cruelest example of human rights violations in the United States
today is the death penalty. Everyone knows that the death penalty is
not now, nor has it ever been, a deterrent to violent crime. Social
scientists for decades have long...
01 February 2000
How far has America actually progressed toward more constructive race
relations? Judging by some recent events, not much.
During this year's legal holiday marking the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I was invited to speak at...
04 January 2000
Jazz owes a lot of its popularity to the phonograph, going back to the early days, when Thomas Edison invented the musical box that brought jazz to people who lived outside of the areas where jazz musicians played. Through phonograph...
02 January 2000
It was immensely significant for black America that the last major
public demonstration in the U.S. in the 20th century was a protest over
global economics and trade. More than forty thousand people came to
Seattle to oppose the policies...
01 January 2000
In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the Supreme Court turned down a
petition for freedom from an enslaved African American. The author of
the court's ruling, Chief Justice Roger B. Tawney, declared that blacks
could never be granted equal...
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