Word: jacksons
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Some are calling the June 3 mayoral election in Jackson, Miss., a win-win situation. Either way, the last of the old civil rights cities will have as mayor its first black or its first woman. The wonder is that just a month ago, neither seemed possible. MAYOR KANE DITTO was the easy favorite to win a third term, but in a six-way race, the white two-term incumbent was trounced by HARVEY JOHNSON, a 50-year-old black urban planner. Johnson must now defeat G.O.P. primary winner CHARLOTTE REEVES. (A third and distant candidate is independent Ivory Phillips...
...years later, he heard that noise again, and it was Josh Gibson, perhaps the greatest Negro-leaguer ever. Then, in the late '80s, he heard it again--Bo Jackson...
Jones was born in Chicago and began his professional career as a jazz musician. He branched out into arranging and producing music and in recent years has written scores for 33 motion pictures and worked with stars of popular music such as Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson...
...outside of the traditional Harvard curriculum. Intellectual independence can be developed by studying authors such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said or Frantz Fanon, who present a strikingly nontraditional perspective on America. Resistance can also be cultivated by reading personal narratives such as the prison letters of George Jackson or the autobiography of Malcolm X, or by listening to musicians such as the Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy, or Rage Against the Machine...
...Many of you think my life is all about Bel Air and making music with Michael Jackson--not," Jones said. "I look back on the path of my life though, and it's been very, very good. I share all of this with you to make a point: despite the odds presented to you, you can do the best that...