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...know that the South has a better handle on race relations. [But] Blacks and whites in the South have had to confront each other more," said Edward T. "Ned" Freeman '00, who has lived in North Carolina, Alabama and most recently Louisiana...
DIED. OSCAR ADAMS JR., 72, former state-supreme-court justice and the first black elected to statewide office in Alabama; of cancer; in Birmingham. Adams, a top civil-rights lawyer, was appointed to a vacancy on the state's high court in 1980. He won the seat in 1982 and was re-elected twice...
...planes. For passengers, this means fewer nonstop flights, reduced meals and higher fares. The strategy faltered when low-fare carriers landed in the hubs and ticket prices dropped exponentially. But the ValuJet tragedy has devastated the low-cost carriers. When ValuJet recently announced plans to end service between Mobile, Alabama, and Atlanta (a Delta fortress hub), the lowest available fare on Delta shot up overnight from...
...longtime Democratic Party operative whom Clinton tapped to be Secretary of Labor. A former aide to Henry Kissinger, Lake is bookish and white. An ally of the late Ron Brown, Herman is glamorous and black. He's diplomacy and Mount Holyoke College; she's civil rights and Mobile, Alabama. On camera, where Lake can be quirky and anxious, Herman is cool and unflappable. And so it is all the more remarkable that two quite different people, nominated to do quite different jobs, now face an identical problem when their confirmation hearings begin. Republicans want to ask both nominees how much...
...eight women who complained that they were repeatedly passed over for raises and higher-level management positions. The EEOC joined their legal battle and expanded it to a class-action suit to include former and current female employees of Publix, which has stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama...