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...this context as referring to "connections between this war and how colored people are treated..." I do not use the phrase "colored people" to refer to persons of color and did not do so when speaking with Mr. Balagur. That phrase, with its unfortunate heritage in the Jim Crow tradition, is generally considered offensive and I very much regret that an apparent transcription error caused Mr. Balagur to attribute it to me. Ellen J. Messing...
Tallahassee will join a select group of cities in the world with magnetic laboratories, according to Jack Crow, director of the Florida consortium. Others include Moscow; Amsterdam; Grenoble, France, and cities in Poland and Japan...
...trench coat, standing beside three other young black men. That winter day in 1960, those four college students broke the segregation barrier by taking seats at F.W. Woolworth's downtown lunch counter. The sit-in shook the sleepy North Carolina city and ignited a nationwide movement to topple Jim Crow's walls. But Richmond says all he felt that day was "scared, scared, scared...
...Black struggle in America has historical basis and implication. Slavery and Jim Crow were practices that raped our families, our identities and our culture. Today, Blacks remain politically and economically oppressed. Poverty and violence have resulted from this systematic oppression. The gains of our ancestors seem to have been temporary...
...family over whether to hunker down under white racism or risk ambition and disappointment. But unlike Fences, a kitchen-sink drama firmly grounded in reality, Piano Lesson seems haunted by specters of the brutal past -- as haunted as the U.S. still is by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow. Director Lloyd Richards and a splendid cast give the script the production it deserves. That was not, alas, the Broadway fate in 1988 of Wilson's gripping but mishandled and commercially disastrous Joe Turner's Come and Gone...