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...discrimination claim, or the $500 million being demanded from Bell Atlantic in a suit filed by African-American employees last month. Their complaint, which so far incorporates the charges of 126 workers, runs the entire gamut of possible racial bias on the job, from the crudest slurs--an insulting "Nigger Application for Employment" was left on a copier--to more subtle forms of discrimination. Daniel Clark, a finance manager with an M.B.A., charges he was repeatedly passed over for a promotion. Despite successfully completing a long list of assignments, "I left Bell Atlantic in December 1995 at the same entry...
Reggie Miller, 15, has been studying the rules ever since his family became one of the few black families to move to Bridgeport in 1994. Even so, he has been spit upon, chased, beaten up "dozens of times," called "nigger" and had a beer bottle broken over his head. "I feel like we don't belong in our own home," he says. Which seems fine by those whites in Bridgeport whose greatest fear is encroachment from the Stateway projects, part of a stretch of high-rise ghettos on Chicago's South Side where the porches are caged in steel mesh...
...that his victim is holding a child. (Wallace had two children of his own.) The rapper once told Peter Spirer, director of the new hip-hop documentary Rhyme & Reason, that "the hardest thing I ever had to overcome is really just making the transition from being a street hustling nigger to, like, a star." Friends say Wallace only rapped about violence to make enough money to leave it all behind. Says Lance Rivera, a close friend of Wallace's: "He said he wanted to move his family down to Atlanta, build them a house there and write a book...
...someone who uses terms like 'faggot,' 'nigger,' 'chink,' 'spic' graduates from here, what's called for is not an incremental approach... but a radical change," Leigh said...
...black man arrives on a slave ship 300 years ago, knowing one English word: "Nigger." It is, or might as well be, his New World name. But Niger, the river, is his origin, his blood flow, which Calvin Baker, 24, a writer for PEOPLE magazine, traces through generations to the brackish wash of present time. Naming the New World (St. Martin's Press; 118 pages; $18.95) is a writer's gamble, a brief, fast-changing swirl of prose sketches, prose-poetry, and poetry standing naked. Such a recitation--it could be chanted, to drum beats, in an evening--might dissipate...