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When Cory A. Booker took office as mayor of Newark, N.J. in 2006, he assumed responsibility for a city torn by crime, economic instability, and explosive racial tensions. Booker, an Yale-educated lawyer, ran on platform of reforming the city’s government and reducing crime. Since taking office, his mayoral agenda—which some consider too idealistic for the harsh reality of Newark, which was decimated following notorious race riots in 1967 riots—has been closely monitored by his constituents and the national media alike. This heavy dose of idealism is what the future lawyers...
Obama’s supporters at the Law School also emphasized the racial significance of the milestone. Mack noted that Obama’s campaign was able to triumph in predominantly white states like Iowa (which is 96 percent white) and Montana (which is 0.5 percent black...
Obama’s victory “points toward a racial future that no one quite grasps but that he is helping to define,” Mack noted...
...arbitrary in individual cases, but a few overall trends stand out clearly. Between 65 and 70 percent of prisoners on death row are in states of the Deep South. About 42 percent of the approximately 1150 inmates awaiting execution are black, like Charles Brooks. Some historians call the racial bins an extension of the period between 1890 and 1920, when black men were lynched by mobs at a rate of one every 41 hours...
...like Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ’48, met with black student leaders numerous times to discuss how diversity could proceed in Bell’s absence. but in this letter, he asserted that while he shared the BLSA’s “goals of racial and social justice,” there were clear differences of opinion on how these goals were to be achieved...