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...Other Frisco. In case you get stuck on an overnight layover at Dallas International, Starwood's lifestyle brand, Aloft, the hotel geared toward the Gen Y traveler, opened an outpost near Dallas in Frisco, Texas, just 25 minutes from the Dallas International Airport and Love Field Airport. 3202 Parkwood Blvd., Frisco...
...lives of tens of thousands of blacks and whites remain intertwined. Every weekday a black woman in her early 60s, whose first name is Aletta, goes from her home in Soweto to the Parkwood suburb of Johannesburg, where she works half a day for a white family. She is one of thousands of black women who work in white homes and provide the main income for their families. She has been a domestic servant in white households for most of her life. Her husband is dead, and she lives in a four-room house with her three daughters...
...racist "separate but equal" policies of the pre-civil-rights-era South are still reverberating in North Carolina - and has affected what many see as a legitimate educational experiment. Last week, Parkwood Middle School, in a suburb of Charlotte, bowed to pressure from the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and ended a half-year tryout in which 55 of 335 of Parkwood's eighth graders were separated by gender into two different classes. The ACLU claimed the exercise, which school officials hoped would highlight any intellectual benefits of segregating adolescents by gender, was discriminatory toward the girls...
Before the Supreme Court's 1954 decision on Brown v. Board of Education, the idea of maintaining "separate but equal" facilities for different groups (generally blacks and whites) was widely accepted, especially in the South. ACLU officials found Parkwood's idea of separate classrooms a bit too reminiscent of a less enlightened era, says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The ACLU is approaching the problem from a historical perspective, and the history of segregation, racial or gender-based, is one in which women and minorities have consistently gotten the short end of the stick," says Sanders. So just...
...talk about the devil." And then he told a long tale or two that lasted till the pilgrims gained Jack Owens' yard. There were some goats tied up near a patch of broom sedge, and there was a white dog, thin as clothesline, tied to a dead Chevrolet Parkwood station wagon, and out back of the little house were 40 fresh-plowed acres. A dark, blustery front was coming in from the west. On the porch sat Jack Owens, a black man with startling blue eyes, and with him was a friend, Ira Hudson, who volunteered, "I'm doing fine...
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