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While America should rightly applaud itself for the advancements in opening educational and economic opportunities to blacks, the ominous cloud of racism does loom overhead. You can be the wealthiest, most highly educated, most successful black person in the world, but as long as you are constantly forced to view your wealth, education or success in the context of your socially-constructed blackness, substantial progress has yet to be made against racism and white supremacy. As Malcolm X put it, "You just can't stab a man in the back nine inches, pull the knife out three inches, and call...
...Perhaps your weather is unusually sunny and warm. Or maybe the cloud hanging over your head is derived from a massive storm system that is dumping unusually large amounts of rain or snow on your region. Whatever the case," notes the CNN Interactive weather website, "you can likely blame El Ni?...
...Reported by Melissa August, John Cloud, Sally B. Donnelly and Adam Zagorin/Washington, Charlotte Faltermayer and Andrea Sachs/New York, Cathy Booth/Los Angeles and Patrick E. Cole/Portland
Intercollegiate wrestling is certainly no exception and now, in part because of that focus on success, an ominous cloud now hangs over the heads of some of America's finest athletes as they compete in a sport that has been recently over-whelmed by tragedy...
...John Cloud. Reported by Edward Barnes and Richard Zoglin/New York