Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Times are likely to become worse for New York's schools as budget cuts begin to eat into teacher rosters and programs. At P.S. 340, a neat, well-tended elementary school in the predominantly black and Puerto Rican South Bronx, Principal Larcelia Kebe worries about managing a full complement of 825 students with fewer teachers this year; 15 of her 35 teachers have been laid off or transferred, as have 13 of her 17 para-professionals (trainees who work with regular instructors at half pay; many study for their own teacher's certificates). Security protection has been reduced...
...alleged aquanautical ability, he may be just as happy with a few laps in the White House pool. Amin plans to address the U.N. General Assembly hi New York and says he hopes to visit President Ford as well. "If America respects the views and decisions of the Af rican continent, President Ford will receive me," said Big Daddy. "But if he ignores my presence, I will make my speech and go home. Then I will call for the transfer of the U.N. to another country...
...problem is that the language learned at home and in the streets can be crippling in America if the black child-or the Puerto Rican raised on Spanish, the Jewish child raised on Yiddish-does not also learn the standard English that is the currency of opportunity. J. Mitchell Morse, a professor of English at Temple University, writes vehemently: "To the extent that the establishment depends on the inarticulacy of the governed, good writing is inherently subversive ... Black English, the shuffling speech of slavery, serves the purposes of white racism." Of course, there is angry argument over whether black dialect...
This leads us to a sobering subject of some controversy in baseball circles, particularly this year in this city racism. No one's going to argue that Puerto Rican pitcher Diego Segan is getting a raw deal in favor of white players, but some observers do feel that Jim Rice, say, the team's other rookie whose performance is only a shade less amazing that Lynn's might not be getting the recognition he deserves. Do the Boston Red Sox have a systematic policy of racism. It's fruitless to argue specifies did black so and so get traded...
...phrase". She said the caucus was risking the same mistakes made by the women's suffrage movement, which alienated the abolitionists by protesting the enfranchisement of black illiterates in the face of educated women's exclusion from the vote. "If we drive out the black women, the Puerto Rican women, the Chicanos and Oriental women, we will be playing right into the hands of the male power establishment. It will destroy the caucus...