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Next year, many of Khalilah's classmates will have to start thinking about that stuff. Many will attend South Boston High School, where more than 200 students clashed in a race riot last Thursday, hitting each other, and Mayor Raymond Flynn, with rocks and chunks of asphalt until police in riot gear forced an end to the fighting...
...there has only been one story since last Thursday, when a number of students from South Boston High School incited a race riot. Within minutes of the first stand-off, as white students stood outside and Black students crowded on the front steps of the school, students were hurling asphalt at the police, the mayor was sent to the hospital and the mob of reporters sent to the scene nearly outnumbered everyone else...
According to Nomakwezi Hani, two white men approached her father as he got out of the car to open the garage door. Five shots rang out -- two to the head -- and Hani slumped to the asphalt, still clutching the morning paper he had just bought. Later, as a pool of blood formed in the driveway, someone came and draped the A.N.C.'s black, green and gold tricolor over the corpse...
...thunder you hear on these March nights is the better part of 10 million basketballs being dribbled, slapped, dunked, palmed and bounced in every oversteamed gym and field house and on every chilled and ragged patch of asphalt and on every mud-caked farmyard where a kid can pivot and hook and dream...
Country music, in fact -- not the typical jazzman's hard knocks in the asphalt jungle -- carried Haden into jazz. Born in Iowa, he grew up in Missouri, where his family had a daily radio show, Uncle Carl Haden and the Haden Family. Cowboy Charlie, as he came to be billed, made his debut at two; at four he was singing all the harmony parts and cutting loose with a mean yodel. Some nights, he remembers, "Mother Maybelle Carter used to rock me to sleep...