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What gives? Obviously, racism is not something one approaches like unemployment or inflation. You can't throw money at racism. You can't solve the problem through tax cuts, defense hikes, or constructing more shelters for the homeless. But Boston is a city on the move, as Kevin White always...
THIS IS NOT TO IMPUGN the good motives of men like Flynn and Dukakis. Dukakis has always been a positive force in the region on race relations, and Flynn has attacked the problem with a fervor that belongs only to the converted. As one who was a public hindrance to...
Kevin while, who began his stint in City Hall in 1969, recalled in a recent interview that as late as the '60s Blacks were able to walk through predominantly Irish Catholic South Boston unharassed. "Blacks used to regularly fish of Kelly's landing in South Boston as late as 1968...
The Justice Department defends its intervention as consistent and evenhanded. "We always side with people who claim they have suffered discrimination on account of race," says Civil Rights Chief William Bradford Reynolds. Indeed, the Birmingham case is not the first time the department has sided with white employees attacking affirmative...
In terms of civil rights, for instance, Mondale has been far ahead in the game, making the case for racial integration when the cause was not all that popular. He was one of the sponsors of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and introduced fair housing legislation in 1967 and 1968...