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...proposed renaming of Plympton Street would honor the journalist David L. Halberstam ’55, who died last year. Halberstam, a former managing editor of The Crimson, is no small figure in history. He covered the Civil Rights movement for The New York Times and won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the early Vietnam War, and he wrote more than 20 books before he died in a car crash on the way to an interview almost a year ago. But changing the name of Plympton Street to honor this great man is neither fitting nor appropriate...
Moreover, African Americans made greater economic progress before they jumped political hurdles. The percentage of African American families below the poverty line dropped 40 percentage points between 1940 and 1960, before Congress passed any important civil rights legislation.But from 1960 to 1980, the poverty rate among African American families fell only 18 percentage points, even after social programs like the War on Poverty and affirmative action took root. The restoration of African Americans’ civil rights wasn’t responsible for their economic standing...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) denied allegations that the University maintains an undercover political intelligence unit in the wake of two arrests that attracted the scrutiny of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...
...Bill of Rights—the essence of American civil liberties—contains crucial provisions for protecting free speech, due process, and a fair and speedy trial among other things. The U.S. Constitution, in turn, was arguably a precedent for Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One might assume that as the descendants of this tradition, the people and the government of the United States would believe in the universal application of human rights around the world. However, the opposite is the case–at least for now. Ever since the War on Terror began, the Bush administration...
...Kenya, a country where corruption is rife and ministers use their power chiefly as a means of enriching themselves, it was no surprise to many civil society groups that leaders would see Cabinet ministries not as platforms from which to govern effectively, but as prizes to be handed out to loyal followers. "If you look at the opposition and government, these are people who a few years ago were saying, 'We need a lean Cabinet, we need to rein in government expenditures,'" said Stephen Lugalia, chairman of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya. "These are very knowledgeable people...