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Leonard Jeffries, chairman of African-American studies at New York's City College, put on a surreal performance. For long stretches of his speech before an Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany last month, Jeffries made an intense and affecting case for blacks to study African history...
Diane Ravitch, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education, is a "sophisticated Texas Jew," Jeffries said, "a debonair racist." He repeatedly called her "Miss Daisy." Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who has written against Afrocentrism, is "a weakling . . . slick and devilish." White people, including "very nice white folks," "distort history in what I...
The crime allegedly occurred in late 1986, when GAF had built up a 10% stake in Union Carbide in a failed takeover bid. Sherwin allegedly persuaded Jeffries & Co., a Los Angeles brokerage, to buy Union Carbide stock to create the impression in the market that the issue was increasing in...
All over Tyson's walls at the Ocean Club hotel are the old sepia photographs out of which he has stepped, going back to Mike Donovan, Jack Blackburn and Joe Jeannette, who in 1909 fought a 49-rounder that featured 38 knockdowns. Louis, Rocky Marciano and Ali are there, but...
About Sullivan's height (5 ft. 10 1/2 in.), and Jim Jeffries' weight (220 lbs.), Tyson is a square, two-fisted hulk with a short man's proclivity for uppercuts. His urgency suggests Rocky Marciano. "A lot of comparisons are made," he says, "but I can't see them. Maybe...