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...RACIAL DIVIDE...
...says Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Even Richard Riordan, the former Los Angeles mayor who had long complained of the paper's liberal bias, is a convert, won over by such coverage as the paper's evenhanded reporting on racial tensions at a hospital in South Los Angeles. "I think Carroll has done a sensational job," says Riordan, whose plans to set up a rival paper are now consigned to the back burner...
...Just two lawyers from the team that argued Brown are still alive, and they answer that question in very different ways. Yet both are still involved in civil rights work and both become contentious when asked about current racial disparities. "The schools we have today with black kids were the kind of schools we had before Brown," says Carter, 87, from his roomy chambers in downtown Manhattan where he has been a U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of New York since 1972. Professor Jack Greenberg, 79, is more sanguine. "Do you want to take a glass half...
...Where do we go from here? Stanford law professor R. Richard Banks, a leading scholar on racial discrimination, believes that litigation needs to be combined with other advocacy strategies, but should take care to leave room for politics. More and more African Americans are in positions of political power and they need the leeway to institute social change. At the same time, however, litigation should not be ignored because it can galvanize social movements, says Banks, and might alter people's values the way Brown...
...landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision a half-century ago, a unanimous Supreme Court struck down the infamous “separate but equal” racial policy. That policy of absolute racial separation had been decreed by the Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896. However, that minimal legal acknowledgement of the humanity of African-Americans was never enforced. Their lives were separate but never equal, from the “colored” hospital wards where they were born to the racially-segregated graveyards where they were buried. As a confused six year...