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...diamond giant De Beers; in Johannesburg. Though he spoke out in 1989 against the racial policies that "made South Africa stink in the nostrils of decent, human people around the world," his business dealings were muddied by an iron adherence to horrible working conditions in his mines and a migrant-labor system that paid blacks far less than whites. He admitted his failures and, 10 years ago, stepped up efforts to end apartheid, recognizing the A.N.C., funding black education and bringing together Nelson Mandela and Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi just days before the first all-race election, thus averting...
...talents and his knowledge of the law in a wide variety of roles to serve the interests of the disadvantaged. He worked to provide legal aid to poor residents of Washington, D.C. and was one of the founders of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, which worked to defend migrant workers during their struggle to unionize...
...During these years, Bellow worked with migrant farm laborers in the San Joaquin Valley. He was an attorney to civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, who was fighting to unionize migrant Mexican farm workers...
...knowing the blues isn't the same as knowing the stuff in history books. The blues, I was always told, was about suffering. And what did I know about the troubles of sharecroppers or migrant workers? The lyrics of most blues songs read like a litany of unfaithful lovers, spiteful landlords and unsympathetic bosses. The song titles alone are enough to fill a therapist's appointment book: "My Baby Don't Love Me" by John Lee Hooker, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" by Luther Allison, "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King. Whatever problems I faced...
...facts of life. I don't suppose it's any worse for me to watch these same college guys ordering around a 40-year-old man who's been hired to staff the kegs at some big party than it is for me to eat the grapes picked by migrant workers in California. Nevertheless, it cannot be healthy for people our age (or any age, really) to get used to these kinds of power dynamics, to the peculiarities of being served by adult men in a private club for college-age guys. For that matter, members should...