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...towns on the outskirts of Johannesburg where the British colonial authorities housed the black and colored laborers working the city's gold mines. The apartheid regime formalized this divide, allowing blacks and coloreds into the city by day but confining them to dormitory towns at night. Soweto became the focus of oppression. In 1976, police there opened fire on 10,000 students protesting a policy to enforce education in Afrikaans; 566 people died...
...moments give me an immense sense of hope. We strive to show the interconnectivity of politics. It’s not just that we want to transform Harvard. We hope that human beings are being transformed. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is to focus on the kid who comes every week and to find hope in that. It gives me a lot of hope, not just for ending the war, but for democracy and world justice...
...Harvard undergraduates, Smith referred to the “Committee to review the Undergraduate Council,” where previously the body had been called the Committee to Review the Role of the Student in College Governance. But Dowling said that he does not plan for the committee to focus exclusively on the UC. The committee will meet for the first time this morning and on alternate Wednesdays afterward for the remainder of the semester and likely into the fall, according to Dowling. Dowling said he and UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 are also planning...
...think it’s an issue that has been overlooked, and we’d like to bring it back into focus...
...wrong, or between black and white for that matter. Having waged a campaign, with great success, on the notion that race as a political and electoral issue could be transcended, with a strategy that assiduously downplayed race, Obama declared today that the only way to transcend race is to focus on it rather than downplay it - to acknowledge its sometimes oppressive presence in American life, in the form of both black anger and white alienation...