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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Clinton Global Initiative, and the danger that they might taint Hillary Clinton's role as Secretary of State. The foundation, according to its public disclosure documents, aims to promote "the values of fairness and opportunity for all" as well as "health security, economic empowerment, leadership development, citizen service, and racial, ethnic and religious reconciliation." Clinton described her husband's Global Initiative, part of his foundation, as a "pass-through" that funnels money from wealthy donors to development and aid projects around the world, whose work includes providing AIDS drugs and poverty and hunger relief. (See pictures of Bill Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blip in Hillary Clinton's Senate Lovefest: Bill's Donations | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...weekend-long Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony, coming just days after Barack Obama's victory. She had applied to join online and traveled hundred of miles to attend the ceremony. Her death has left this region shocked, fearful of resurgent white supremacist groups, and dreading becoming a symbol of racial hatred in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Klan Initiation Murder: A Backlash to Obama's Victory? | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...surprise. We have our share of white trash up here. But the community has evolved past Klan-type behavior. Nobody is on that page anymore." Andre Johnson, one of two blacks on the seven-member governing board of Washington Parish, says, "although we have a history of racial divisiveness, it was an isolated incident. But as a whole, as a parish, we've come a long way, and we're trying to move toward the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Klan Initiation Murder: A Backlash to Obama's Victory? | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...still based on color. People now wonder what the point is of educating their children to be a doctor or an engineer if the job will go to someone less qualified. They [the A.N.C.] have been unable to move on from the past: everything has a racial background. If I criticize Mbeki because of his disastrous policies on AIDS, it is because I am a racist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Anti-Apartheid Icon Helen Suzman | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...other non-white American stars - Paul Robeson, Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Anna May Wong - had left their homeland with its crushing racial roadblocks, to find work and acclaim on the continent. But they were in the middle of their careers, and never matched their European eclat back home. Eartha was just starting hers. And in postwar America, the movies, Broadway and cabaret were more welcoming to black performers, especially ones with a touch of aristocratic or sexual exotica: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Eartha - not Keith - Kitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008: The Original Material Girl | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

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