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...last week proposed the repeal of the Mixed Marriages Act and Section 16 of the Immorality Act, laws that are generally interpreted as prohibiting marriage, cohabitation and sexual intercourse between whites and nonwhites. In reality, the move will not have a widespread effect: most authorities have long turned a blind eye to the country's few hundred mixed-race relationships. But the toppling of two of the pillars of apartheid seemed at the very least to prepare the way for further and more significant reforms. "The abolition of these laws is more symbolic than substantial," the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, leader...
...shirts, setting up a hot line for disgruntled callers and threatening to bring a class-action suit to make the old recipe public. Mullins organized the Old Cola Drinkers of America, whose aim was to bring back the beloved soft drink. It did not matter that Mullins, in two blind tests, expressed a preference for new Coke over old Coke. He wanted his rum-and-Cokes to be just the way they always were...
About three days before this incident, my boyfriend of two years and I had broken up, and I’d been experiencing horrifyingly vivid visions of my single future. There I would be, living in one shabby room of an old blind lady’s apartment in Queens. For company, I’d have six cats, which I’d name things like “Mr. Right” and “Main Man.” Upon returning home from work each day, I would make tuna for supper and share it with...
...allocation of delegates, the 1912 GOP national convention nominated Taft, prompting Roosevelt to form his own Bull Moose Party and run anyway. “Roosevelt had loved the presidency for the power it gave him to play the hero, and when it ended, he was as wounded and blind as a husband who loses an adored wife to another man,” O’Toole writes. The two candidates split the Republican ballots, and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, won with 42 percent of the vote...
...taught us to live up to our American ethos of equality and justice for all. In a deeply Christian nation, this King becomes a modern-day Christ figure, dying for our collective sins of virulent white racism and frustrated black retaliatory rage, and leading us to a color-blind promised land that was our American destiny all along. But unfortunately for those who would cling to this fraudulent King and the sanitized version of American history he represents, no matter how many Apple Computer commercials or elementary school Black History Month celebrations he shows his face at, the false King...