Word: journalists
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Even Martin Luther King Jr. was branded a traitor to his country because he opposed the war in Vietnam. When King announced his opposition in 1967, journalist Kenneth Crawford attacked him for his "demagoguery," while black writer Carl Rowan bitterly concluded that King's speech had created "the impression that the Negro is disloyal." Black dissent over war has historically brought charges of disloyalty despite the eagerness among blacks to defend on foreign soil a democracy they couldn't enjoy back home. Since the time of slavery, blacks have actively defended the U.S. in every war it has waged, from...
...dozen cars bearing banners condemning France and opposing Tibetan independence slowly cruised by the French school in Beijing, where students were inside taking exams. My children are at a different school, but the display still gave me the chills. With China's nationalist tiger untethered, a foreign journalist may have more to fear than angry messages on a blog...
...someone else to come help you.” During the ride, I discovered that Kimble had been hoping to transfer to Harvard from Loyola University in New Orleans—but then found out that Harvard was discontinuing its transfer program. An Exeter graduate and aspiring sports broadcast journalist, Kimble works four to five jobs to pay his tuition at Loyola. As so many connections came to light on the trip—between my life and the lives of those I met—I realized we’re all part of one larger human family. It?...
...swishy skirts. Despite the presence of feminism in her childhood, Martin said she did not understand the need for a collective lens until she witnessed the “dissolution of brilliant, beautiful women” at the hands of rape and anorexia. Zook, a 42-year-old journalist and author, said the word “feminism” was never used when she was growing up, but her mother and grandmother “were and are feminists in their own ways.” Even with these roots, Zook is not the same feminist...
...object to the Vatican's blanket condemnation of stem cell research, it's still good to have powerful global voices like the Pope's warning us not to play Frankenstein. And it's not as if we don't get along with our clerics: as a Catholic journalist, I've learned that if any two groups of people can drink with each other, even if they don't agree with each other, it's reporters and priests...