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...Anderson is not making any apologies--not for his deeply held beliefs, and not for making those beliefs the official platform of the HRC. No stranger to leadership, the former three-sport captain, president of the National Honor Society and local teen Republican club says he was elected to lead the organization to the right and is achieving that mandate...
Dickerson is no stranger to the blighted area. She grew up in Reveilletown, a farming community that abutted a chemical plant until it was relocated in 1988 as the result of a class action she instigated. A former captain in the corrections department, Dickerson began working full time for Gulf Coast in January and helped organize this week's Second Great Louisiana March Against Poisons. "All we want," she says, "is for the air and water to get cleaner so that it doesn't pose a danger...
This free-floating anger crystallized two months ago around the case of Rodney Sumter, 39, who was charged with first-degree manslaughter for beating to death a homeless man on a subway platform after the stranger spat on him and punched him in the head. Sumter who was traveling with his three-year-old son and had lately worked in a program to train homeless people in construction, had all the credentials of an earnest victim. Civil rights leader Roy Innis rallied to Sumter's defense, as did editorialists from the city's newspapers. "How many subway riders, wary...
...pursuit of peace, becoming a conspicuously multiracial society is bound to be a somewhat bumpy experience for many ordinary citizens. For older Americans, raised in a world where the numbers of whites were greater and the visibility of nonwhites was carefully restrained, the new world will seem ever stranger. But as the children at Brentwood Science Magnet School, and their counterparts in classrooms across the nation, are coming to realize, the new world is here. It is now. And it is irreversibly the America to come...
There is no such thing as neutrality in this situation. To ignore a request for help is an active decision, and to pretend otherwise is to fool oneself. But it does not fool the supplicant. To the person who has suffered the humiliation of asking a complete stranger for help, the refusal of the most basic courtesy is like a splash of salt water on open wounds...