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...Each of these things are black boxes,” Silver said. “You hook them together and you treat it like you would building a computer...
...early associations with Communist and Socialist political parties; its leaders’ personal relations with presidents (A. Phillip Randolph and Lyndon Johnson had their fair share of meetings); and how the fight for equality was undermined by a vicious cycle of unfair, false perceptions over which black Americans had no control. Sugrue strives to connect the struggles for rights in the North and South. It was Northerners’ success in gaining access to public buildings—such as movie theaters and restaurants—that helped the South start overcoming Jim Crow Laws. The Northern strategy of gathering...
...nation’s first black president, elected by the most decisive margin in two decades, it’s probably not much of a surprise that one of Harvard Law School’s favorite sons is leading Time Magazine’s online poll to be named person of the year. More unexpected is that the man in second place—albeit by a massive margin—is biologist Douglas A. Melton, the director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
...major prejudice in this country.” Although Milk indeed begins to break down barriers, the movie foreshadows his untimely death. “Police hated us, and we hated them right back,” Milk says on the tape. The film begins with actual black-and-white footage from the 1970s of anti-gay rioters and police brutality being used to quash gay protests. Van Sant also splices the film’s action with witness interviews about the violence. “All we could hear was screaming, crushing, smashing. It was terrifying...
...Flores-McLeod ticket is currently leading in the campaign’s endorsement count, with support from the Dems, Strong Women Strong Girls, the Environmental Action Committee, and the Asian American Association. Schwartz-Biggers is second with endorsements from the Black Students Association and Freeze College Magazine...