Word: booker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face of this rot, I don't believe that Afro-Americans can afford the Booker T. Washington-tyupe of calmness or indifference toward racist patterns that so many neconservative Black intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele and Glenn Loury traffic...
That voice calls into question the historical moment, this "moment in our century we assumed we understood." "If Booker T. was sitting down to eat a chicken sandwich in the President's house in a city called capital, near where True Belle had had such a good time, then things must be all right, all right." Morrison unravels the underside of the jazz age, complicating what we recall as a wildly uninhibited feel-good era. "Things" were not "all right"; history was not "over...
...suspect that before [the consent decree], the financial aid offer would be that of the college with the lowest financial aid budget," said Booker. "Now that the colleges aren't getting together, it's okay for students to apply to more than...
...finding more and more children are going to opt for schools where they get some help," said Booker...
...middle income students, especially middle income minorities, didn't choose to go to the Ivies [this past year]," said Booker...