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...could not fail to be inspired by Majora Carter?s efforts to bring green space for exercise to the South Bronx. Or by Lance Morgan?s efforts to create an ?active living? community for his fellow Winnebago tribe members, so many of whom die young from obesity. We need more ideas like these to bring solutions to minority communities, where obesity rates are sky-high and poverty is an obstacle to healthy eating. We also heard ideas for using more funds from the Transportation Bill for paths for walking and biking...
President Ronald Reagan is dead, but his legacy not only lives on; it dominates the American political landscape. Today many of the core principles of the "Reagan Revolution" that began with his victory over President Jimmy Carter in 1980 remain conventional wisdom not only for the Republican Party he remade in his own image, but also for the Democrats. The greatest tribute to a president's political impact is the adoption of his most popular ideas by his opponents - and when President Clinton spoke of ending the era of "big government" and reforming welfare, he knew full well that those...
...Carter argues, the biggest reason Brown hasn't been a complete success lies in the Supreme Court. When the 1954 Brown decision came down, the Court did not specify a remedy for school segregation. A year later it issued Brown v. Board of Education II, which said that the transition to integration should happen "with all deliberate speed." That, says Carter, paved the way for years of foot-dragging, and institutionalized resistance. "When the Supreme Court made that decision 'over time' I lost all respect for it, because they departed from all precedence," said Carter. "I have never known...
...Brown "broke up the frozen political system in the country at the time," Greenberg notes. Southern congressmen made it a priority to keep African-Americans from obtaining power, but Brown allowed for change. Judge Carter believes that the greatest accomplishment of the ruling was to create a black middle class: "The court said everyone was equal, so now you had it by right...
...Carter, the solution still comes back to education. "If I could pick any case to argue today, I'd argue a case to secure equal education for black kids. Well, I guess I'd be arguing Brown...