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...volunteer for Jack Kennedy, made TV commercials, served a stint on LIFE magazine. ''The black bourgeoisie,'' she writes, ''took great pride in its separateness from ordinary black culture.'' It was Lena redivivus, including marriage to a white man--in this case Director Sidney Lumet, the ex-husband of Gloria Vanderbilt. Buckley admits that black history took place for her like news from another planet. The Supreme Court decision desegregating schools had less significance than a scene in Las Vegas featuring an infatuated Marlene Dietrich pursuing Frank Sinatra. The year Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery...
...These are dangerous times for Philippine activists. A police task force assigned to investigate politically motivated killings says that 141 activists have been murdered since 2001, when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo came to power. All but a handful of those cases remain unsolved. Karapatan, a Philippine human-rights group, estimates a much bloodier tally: 902 murdered labor leaders, journalists, local politicians, priests, and peasant organizers. Dozens more activists have vanished. In June 2006, less than a year before Jonas Burgos was snatched, two young female organizers from the University of the Philippines were abducted at gunpoint in Bulacan...
...following her second divorce, O’Reilly went to New York with her son to become a freelance writer. Her first friend there was Gloria Steinem, whom she met when the two were working at New York Magazine...
...required that taco trucks move after 30 minutes, but rarely has the law, which carried a $60 fine, been enforced. The new, harsher taco truck law, and a promise of stricter enforcement, was inspired by the needs of businesses and residents in East L.A., says County Supervisor Gloria Molina, who proposed the regulations. "It all stems from an ongoing turf battle between the vendors and the merchants," Molina says. "The businesses don't appreciate [the taco trucks] down in front. And some of the residents consider it annoying to have the trucks out until midnight or two in the morning...
...nothing but a number, four self-proclaimed feminists imparted to their listeners on Friday. Feminists and authors Gloria Feldt, Courtney E. Martin, Deborah Siegel, and Kristal B. Zook took the stage in Harvard Hall, billed as an “intergenerational panel,” ranging from ages 27 to 65, to tell audience members that feminists of all ages need to communicate in order to carry forth the “unfinished revolution” of feminism. “We all agree that women across all generations need to be talking to each other, not at each other...