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...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 who graduate from Harvard Law School may receive when Booker gives the Class Day speech tomorrow. Just one year after graduating from Yale Law School...
...Diamond, his freshman roommate Alfred M. Derrow ’58 remembered, extended some of that boldness outside the walls of his dorm room as well. During one of the era’s “freshman riots?? (mostly non-violent affairs), Diamond filled up water balloons and took aim at the police below...
Slower songs, such as “Daughters of the SoHo Riots?? and “About Today,” were a nod to Doveman, who opened. His set utilized a number of National members; he concealed his vocals behind a pleasant, plodding wall of sound, at the centerpiece of which was the novel juxtaposition of banjo and keyboard...
Ferguson—who has written widely about globalization and published an op-ed yesterday in the Los Angeles Times about the riots??added that he sees this assimilation process as monocultural, not multicultural...
...underemployment, black workers confined to the bottom of the economic hierarchy became economically unviable as laborers. Herded into the abandoned central cities, this black urban “underclass” revolted in the mid-1960s against these conditions in a series of urban “riots?? across...