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...interesting dirt. Ancestry.com found that Coleman Sharpton, the great-grandfather of civil rights activist AL SHARPTON, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was the great-great-grandfather of Senator STROM THURMOND. Yep, ancestors of the deceased icon of segregation owned ancestors of the permed icon of Brooklyn, N.Y. "The shame is that people were owned as property," said the ever voluble Sharpton, who used the revelation to do a little sermonizing. "Strom Thurmond ran for President in 1948 on a segregationist ticket. I ran in '04 on a ticket for racial justice," he said. "That shows what...
...want to draw attention to himself and the illness that had taken over his quick-witted, Jesuit-trained mind, though. So it was just an engagement party. He never wanted people to give him the luxury treatment. He hated that I had to drive him to work at his Brooklyn newspaper through 50 minutes of bumper-crunching BQE traffic whenever he wanted to go to work, and he always tried to get off of the couch by himself before extending his pudgy fingers to whoever was standing nearest. So we called it an engagement party.A bewildering series of events converged...
...first day in office. Clinton said only that all Americans would have universal health care by the end of her second term. Edwards added that anyone who didn't call for tax hikes to pay for such a program "might have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn." That prompted Richardson and former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to adamantly dispute that. "I don't think the solution for the Democratic Party should always be we either tax more or spend more," Richardson said...
...loop and overwhelmed. In Trachtenberg’s hands, a bridge ceases to be a work of architecture and becomes a “cultural text,” a symbol that reveals aspects of the society that created it. Trachtenberg opens his essay on the Brooklyn Bridge by considering the bridge as viewed by little-known contemporaneous architectural critic Montgomery Schuler. Trachtenberg uses him as a launching point from which he examines the various artistic representations of the bridge throughout the first half of the 20th century and addresses the question of why the bridge recurs so often...
...Super Bowl. The two black guys in Miami in 2007 paled in comparison to the man in Washington, D.C. in 1963, the woman in Montgomery in 1955, or—the original barrier-breaking pioneer in the athletic world—the man who wore number 42 in Brooklyn...