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...checks? Five years ago, California's then Governor Ronald Reagan introduced an ambitious program for providing chores or "training" for all healthy adult recipients, except for mothers with children under six. The legislature voted to abolish it less than three years later, however, amid charges that it constituted slave labor. Last year New York City revived a similar program targeted mainly at some 50,000 men and women without children and found work of sorts for 5,700 of them in city agencies...
...Kinte family, a distant relative. If all goes according to plan, many other root seekers will follow Haley's footsteps to Gambia. In fact, Gambian officials now expect some 2,000 tourists this summer. Among the spectacles being considered: a sound-and-light show about a slave escaping to freedom. Haley's triumph has been soured a bit recently by charges that some of the details in his book are historically inaccurate, but last week also brought him a resounding vote of confidence: a special Pulitzer Prize...
...historical and statistical data to show that execution for rape was based on race. Before the Civil War, Georgia law was typical of Southern statutes in specifying that a white man raping a black woman could draw a fine or imprisonment "at the discretion of the court," while a slave or "free person of color" even attempting to rape a white woman could be put to death. Supposedly color-blind postwar laws were selectively enforced: since 1930, when accurate record keeping was started, 89% of the 455 rapists executed in the U.S. have been black...
...West Coast, publish graphic letters on parents' sexual exploits with their own children. Says Los Angeles' Martin: "We had one kid in here the other day who is eleven years old. His father started on him when he was six, then sold him twice as a sex slave. The kid had been in movies, pictures, magazines and swap clubs. After a while, he broke down and cried and said how grateful he was to have been pulled...
Jones shies away from racial talk, offering instead the view that "we're all Americans, all immigrants." He speaks with pride of his own roots-a slave grandfather who bought his freedom and encouraged his children to get the best education possible-but Grambling does not put much emphasis on its black studies program since careers in the field are limited. Jones argues vigorously, however, that predominantly black colleges should not be merged with previously white state universities. Says he: "We understand the problems a young, often poor, black boy or girl faces. Put them in an institution where...