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...amazing story of Robinson's transition from a local Southern California hero, albeit with paltry prospects after college, into the man who broke the unstated but implacable color line in major league baseball and changed American race relations forever. First from his mother, and later from a black Methodist minister who befriended him in his troubled adolescence, Jackie imbibed the belief that God had plans for him. Sure enough, an implausible design took shape. Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, plucked Robinson out of the obscurity of the Negro league Kansas City Monarchs in 1945 and asked...
Louis C. Jacobs, a noted dinosaur expert at Southern Methodist University, said the Utah fossil discoveries are "hugely" important because they help give a picture of the world during an unknown period...
...poverty may be over, its soldiers in disarray and retreat, but the Rev. Floyd Flake, who is a departing member of Congress, seems not to have got the news. Flake's Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., with 9,000 members and a towering new $23 million cathedral, operates a government-funded social-services network that would be the envy of many municipal governments. The church's 30,000-sq.-ft. social-services center houses a city-funded walk-in clinic and federal Head Start classrooms at street level. On the center's second floor are a city...
...bogged down in the muddy road and had to be rescued by a tow truck. One stop was Grafton, W.Va., pointed out on your map as the "Birthplace of Mother's Day in 1908." I thought I would find a vase of red carnations on the altar of the Methodist Church where the day was first celebrated. Instead, there was a tired poinsettia left over from Christmas...
...spent far too much time trying to figure out how to exempt the good white people while trying to assure the eternal damnation of the bad white people. I went from the Harvard Glee Club, Christ Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Chaplaincy to the Kuumba Singers, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church and then thought that I should have applied to Morehouse College--where none of my time would have been spent teaching Harvard to understand the African-American experience...