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...Ariz. In 1977, after becoming the first black director on the General Motors board, he framed the Sullivan Principles, a code for U.S. companies operating in South Africa outlining how they could desegregate workplaces and promote fair treatment of black employees. At age 10, Sullivan was booted from a Charleston, W.Va., drugstore counter while drinking a soda, an incident that inspired him as an adult to organize boycotts of racist companies. In 1964, he founded an international chain of schools to prepare people for the workforce, regardless of race, age and gender...
...guess is that Sullivan isn't talking about the kind of viewpoint I'd seen at an art exhibit the day before I visited him. In "Confederate Currency: The Color of Money," at the Avery Research Center in Charleston, an African-American artist named John W. Jones took the romanticized slave-labor scenes from Confederate currency and reproduced them in oil paintings paired with the bills. The effect is to punctuate the exploitation of blacks for profit. One scene depicts a sun-lit goddess of good fortune in repose, counting her gold as slaves toil in the fields behind...
DIED. MAUDE RUTHERFORD, 104, the "Slim Princess" and Cotton Club singer and dancer who claimed to have introduced the Charleston to Broadway in the 1922 all-black revue Liza; in Atlantic City, N.J. Despite her considerable talent, Rutherford, who worked with Josephine Baker, was usually cast as comic relief, never the star...
...cold and breezy, giving the chance to display its ability to cope with the elements. The win will go a long way in helping the team make its way back to the top of the Sailing World College Rankings, where it had been displaced by the College of Charleston in the Mar. 20 poll. Charleston finished fifth on Sunday...
This weekend represented only the second full weekend of action for the sailing team. The Crimson had previously competed in the Charleston Team Race, finishing first after round-robin competition and second to host Charleston in the final four playoff...