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...hard-hit region (by comparison, only nine of the NFL's 256 regular-season games last year were blacked out). "My worry is that if the NFL doesn't look at changing the rule, we're losing a fan base," says Richard Clark, president of the Jacksonville City Council. "I would like to think they would really, really look at those communities which are hardest hit and have an honest discussion about it, as opposed to saying this is the way we've always done things." (See the top 10 things to watch for this NFL season...
...committees. In multiple instances, students have organized to demand more academic options. The last big student push was in 2002, when a coalition failed to win approval for a certificate in ethnic studies. The committee’s current revival has come in response to interest from the Undergraduate Council and the Ethnic Studies Coalition, an unofficial student group that formed last spring to advocate for the subject’s revitalization. Various faculty members, over 20 of whom now sit on the committee, also supported the effort.The Standing Committee’s input contributed to the hiring...
...first large Southern city to elect a black mayor in 1973, Atlanta has had African-American leadership ever since. However, this year, a white city council member is leading in polls over three black challengers, causing some to fret that her election could lead to a setback for a "black agenda" of racial and social justice...
...four candidates have loudly rejected a call for black Atlantans - who make up 57% of the city's population - to rally around a single black candidate in order to defeat Mary Norwood, the white city council member. "Mary's not focused on [the race angle]," says Norwood campaign manager Roman Levit. "She's focused on two things: making the city safe, and bringing accountability to the city government." (From TIME's Archives: What makes a city great...
Lisa Borders, the candidate second to Norwood in most polls, complains that attempts to inject race into the campaign obscures her claim that Norwood is the least-qualified candidate. Borders heads the city council, and was also elected citywide. State Sen. Kasim Reed told a breakfast meeting of black ministers, "One Atlanta is a strong Atlanta. Two Atlantas is not Atlanta at all." Attorney Jesse Spikes also deplored the injection of race into the campaign. A second white candidate, political novice Kyle Keyser, has not shown up in polling...