Word: jill
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...interview with TIME last week, Savage recalled her meeting with Brock in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in downtown Washington in 1994. A book titled Strange Justice, by reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, had just come out--and it used on-the-record interviews to argue persuasively that Thomas had indeed subjected a number of women to frequent sexually explicit remarks about porno videos. Savage, a black mid-level aide in the Reagan Administration, told both the authors and the Judiciary Committee (although she wasn't called to testify publicly) that when she went to Thomas' apartment...
...lament Jack and Jill national president Carla Williams hears often. "We just had cocktails for prospective members," she says, "and their stories were the same: we don't want our child without culture and tradition. We want him to have black friends; we want him to have someone to date...
That sense of urgency has given Jack and Jill a relevance it lost in the generation after its founding, despite its steady membership through the years. Though created because of bigotry, the group developed its own reputation for prejudice. Mothers, who hold the membership for families, have to be invited to join, a tradition that infamously favored light-skinned, well-to-do blacks. With the advent of the civil rights struggle, with its Afros, protests and black power, Jack and Jill began to look like a doppelganger of the white establishment and fell out of favor with younger blacks. "Someone...
Today many of these same people, now married with children, are signing up. Though Jack and Jill still carries an elitist image, these people see a need for the group. In search of better jobs, dream homes and superior schools, many black families have taken root in pale places, far from their old neighborhoods and extended families. "When I got into Jack and Jill 18 years ago, most black families lived in the same part of town," says Karen Clark, an Oklahoma City mother. "The majority of our mothers now live in predominantly white communities." Annette Schley, a college administrator...
Julia Scotton, an Altadena, Calif., mother, echoes many parents in hoping Jack and Jill will even increase the chances that her kids will date and then marry other blacks. When her son T.C., one of a handful of blacks at his high school, needed to find a date to take to last year's winter dance, Scotton gave him the list of Jack and Jill families with teenage girls. Of course, it remains to be seen how much effect such efforts will ultimately have on kids in a post-civil rights era. T.C. did take a black girl...