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...while the Warren Court deliberated over its decision in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, popular discussion buzzed around everything from child psychology to the conceptual validity of “separate but equal institutions.” By the time that ruling was handed down, however, the decision boiled down to one fact: State and local laws that segregated American citizens on account of their race violated the constitutional promise of equality...
...Justices of the Warren Court made themselves clear: “The ‘separate but equal’ doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson has no place in the field of public education.” We may only hope that, in the case of same-sex couples, similar prudence prevails, and that the Constitution’s promise of equality may ensure that they no longer be kept separate, at an irrational remove from the institution of loving marriage...
...basis of their sexual orientation. But in 2008, their story is mainly unknown to the undergraduate community. Filmmaker Michael Van Devere, a Harvard Extension School graduate, seeks to unearth the voices of these men in his film “Perkins 28: Testimony from the Secret Court Files of 1920.” The film will premiere at 7 p.m. on Nov. 17 at Hilles Cinema. The film derives its title from the dorm room Perkins 28, the alleged epicenter of the homosexual community in 1920. After President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, was alerted to a possible community...
...Whether the charges against the accused will stand in a court of law remains to be seen. What is clear is that India now faces a dangerous epidemic of violent communalization, which threatens to polarize the polity and destroy the secular character of the state...
...social worker was convinced, and this week the lawyers were as well. The court lifted the order, and Hannah may continue to refuse the treatment...