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...lazy or indifferent or overworked parents who can't meet with a teacher or help with homework. Progress on race comes in the most intimate gestures: Last December, as Elnora Littleton in Rosedale, Miss., tells it, she became the first black woman in those parts ever to preach at a white man's funeral. In this part of the country, she says, it is a milestone worth noting. "I made history," she says...
...They're struggling, and I help with the struggle because I preach, I teach--and boy, do I nag. I'm relentless about it. Everybody at home can make a decision to do or not do anything, but I nag. I have no power other than nagging...
...They're struggling, and I help with the struggle because I preach, I teach - and boy, do I nag. I'm relentless about it. Everybody at home can make a decision to do or not do anything, but I nag. I have no power other than nagging...
...some staff say Mayer's mantra translates into empty rhetoric. "They talk a lot about accountability, trust and respect--but they don't practice what they preach," says one manager who recently left HUDS, but asked not to be identified...
...choice of speaker has always belonged to the seniors and from the 19th century until today, they have always invited the University president to preach...