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Article Compounds Family's 9/11 Tragedy
Attendant on Doomed Flight Falsely Labeled “Hysterical” The world learned that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had begun when flight attendant Betty Ong, flying on the hijacked plane that left from Boston, picked up the in-flight phone and punched the buttons for the American Airlines reservations desk. ” ‘The cockpit is not answering…
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1st NY Times Female Editor Talks Gender
No Difference in Taste or Sensibility, Jill Abramson Says Jill Abramson, who last week became the first female editor of the New York Times in its 160-year history, said Sunday, “The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn’t true.” The statement was challenged by women who have studied the…
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Widespread Bias Continues in 'Postracial' U.S.
Majorie Valbrun at America’s Wire explores postracial America in a story that quotes social psychologists and experts on race relations, who say that structural racism is alive and well. WASHINGTON — Recent public opinion polls show that more whites than African-Americans believe that the United States has entered a “post-racial” era in which racial bias doesn’t…
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Revealing Roots: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Sandy Harris chose to fight for the freedom of other blacks. And this sense of service became a leitmotif in Lawrence-Lightfoot’s family. People who could have passed didn’t pass. People who could have stayed in the North instead headed South to work in impoverished communities. It’s a structuring principle of Lawrence-Lightfoot’s ancestry. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is…
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Black Teacher Calls Student 'White Boy'
A Florida teacher was suspended without pay for one day last month after making inappropriate racial comments to his second-graders, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. Sixty-year-old Billy C. Miles, who is black, reportedly told the class he didn’t want the “black people” misbehaving in public and said to the only white child in the class:…
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The Modest Goals of Black College Football
Another college football season started Sept. 1, with the bulk of attention heaped on the usual suspects, powerhouse programs such as Oklahoma, Alabama and Louisiana State. Such schools — members of lucrative Bowl Championship Series conferences — enjoy regular appearances on national TV, play in stadiums that seat 80,000 to 100,000 fans and often appear…
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Little Common Ground at Panel on 'The Help'
When I was growing up in Baltimore in the 1960s, when my oldest brother was in law school, my mother occasionally performed day work — that is, she would hire herself out for the day to clean a house from top to bottom. She was a stay-at-home mom with a high school degree and some…
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MLK Parade Bombing Suspect Pleads Guilty
Kevin William Harpham, a man with ties to white-supremacist groups, pleaded guilty today to placing an improvised explosive device alongside the planned Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity March on Jan. 17, 2011, in Spokane, Wash. Federal officials say this development “highlights the threat posed by hate-motivated violence”: From KEPR-TV: On March 9, 2011, Harpham…
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Labors of Love for Fans of Elmer Smith
Labor Day brought unexpected news for friends and colleagues who found their names added to a new Facebook page, “Friends of Elmer Smith“: The longtime editorial writer and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News is retiring. “Yo, Elmer!! Sorry to hear that the coolest cat, and one of the smartest voices at the DN, is…
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Daily Job Lead: Senior Analyst Programmer
The Mayo Clinic’s Information Technology division in Rochester, Minn., is currently seeking a senior analyst programmer to help create and fine-tune applications and information systems for the company’s internal affairs as well as for the convenience of patients. The ideal candidate has strong technical skills and around three years of professional technical experience. Candidates should…