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...just this week, Harvard failed to endorse the Coalition Against Sexual Violence’s attempt to gain federal funding to help redress the current dearth of resources available for sexual assault victims on campus. The grant would have funded a review of Harvard’s current sexual violence education and the implementation of suggested changes as well as sexual violence education for members of the Ad Board. Lewis has declared the Ad Board to be ill-equipped to handle sexual assault cases; how can it then be denied that an evaluation of its processes and the College?...
...time married to Isabelle. Later Fredi was a casting consultant on the Dorothy Dandridge-starring films "Carmen Jones" and "Porgy and Bess," the most lavish black-cast musicals of the 50s. She devoted most of her productive life to civil rights causes that tried to redress the indignities she and others had suffered...
...movement in Lanshan county, an agricultural backwater in Hunan province that is anything but bucolically peaceful. Locals say there are more than 20 victims of fatally violent crimes who remain unburied as a gesture of protest. Their coffins are displayed in homes, backyards and fields. Families are demanding redress from a police force that, they say, is more interested in taking kickbacks than in cracking cases...
...every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. An Administration whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free student body...
Last year the Oklahoma legislature passed a bill affirming that whites were responsible for the riot. But it did not provide reparations to a group of elderly black survivors, a redress that had set off years of controversy. (Each of them received instead a gold-plated medal with the state seal.) The archives of the Tulsa Tribune are still incomplete. But thanks to the commission--and Hirsch's book--the crimes that were covered up are now back in the collective memory...