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But despite its relatively small minority population (or perhaps because of it), Boston has been the site of a number of racial turf wars, most notably the long-standing fight over school busing.
Paglia, a professor of humanities at the University of Arts in Philadelphia, is known for her controversial cultural criticism and her position as an "anti-feminist feminist." But last week she started off her speech by saying that "educational reform is the number one issue of my career," especially the...
During his 24 years on the nation's highest court, Marshall never abandoned his commitment to affirmative action and busing for integration. But his zeal and his conviction that he could not be replaced, Williams suggests, led Marshall into the greatest miscalculation of his life. In 1980, when his health...
Lukas won a second Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his book, Common Ground, which examined the effects of busing intended to end de facto school segregation. The book chronicles the policy's effect on three Boston families.
After Henry Grunwald became managing editor in 1968, succeeding Otto Fuerbringer, the trend toward cover stories about issues, ideas and events grew more pronounced. Covers on the birth-control pill in 1967 and the battle over busing to achieve desegregation in 1975 focused on the issues more than on the...