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...heating up on the national stage, issues of race were significantly absent from the discourse among the College’s undergraduate population. Notably, there was only one black student in the Class of 1958, according to the book “Blacks of Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experiences At Harvard and Radcliffe...
...BLSA’s first meetings of the year, “there were African American students who had never been to a BLSA meeting who showed up asking, ‘What’s going on because there were people at my workplace calling me a racist,’” Tyler said...
...Blacks coming out of the '60s were no longer ashamed of being black people, nor did they have to apologize for being Christian. Because many persons in the African-American community were teasing us, Christians, of being a white man's religion," Wright told PBS' Bill Moyers earlier this year...
...history of animosity between the north and south stretches back centuries. The north - generally Arab nomads descended from kingdoms around the Nile - have repeatedly tried to subjugate the mixed Arab and African cattle herders and pastoralists of the south. In colonial times, the British administered north and south Sudan separately, although they united the two sides just before independence. Southern frustration at the perceived northern domination of the post-colonial government in Khartoum spilled over quickly into the First Sudanese civil war, which lasted from 1955 to 1972. Whereas then the hostility focused on land and water - southern Sudan...
Though it may help me "feel effective," reducing my own carbon footprint is a little like a white American in 1963 pledging personally not to discriminate against an African American [May 26]. Now as then, we need tough national laws putting everyone on the same (green) playing field--and international agreements, as well. We must prove not just our individual virtue but also our collective courage and political will. (The Rev.) Fred Small, LITTLETON, MASS...