Word: thurgood
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...slasher, Bill the waffler and Jesse the crank -- Helms, that is, not Jackson. But the scariest of all the hobgoblins may well be a fellow African American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the four years since George Bush chose him to fill the "black seat" vacated by Thurgood Marshall, Thomas has emerged as the high court's most aggressive advocate of rolling back the gains Marshall fought so hard for. The maddening irony is that Thomas owes his seat to precisely the kind of racial preference he goes to such lengths to excoriate. And as long...
...what is Thomas accused of? Behaving crudely toward Anita Hill. Either it never happened, or it was so minor that it did not matter to Hill at the time. Either way, the accusation provides no basis for destroying a Justice who has every bit as much ability as Thurgood Marshall, an earthy man himself, and many other Justices...
Brooklyn-born Alvin Singleton, 53, also comfortably bridges the gap between European and black forms, though many of his pieces explore black themes. His orchestral composition Even Tomorrow, for example, is an homage to Thurgood Marshall, but the music itself is strictly formal in style...
After graduating from Harvard Law, Jackson clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jon O. Newman and then for late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall...
...room." Yet Thomas has uttered not one inquiry from the bench this term, preferring to rock silently back and forth in his chair. While some critics see that as diffidence, others note that silence has always been proper behavior during oral arguments. Among those who practiced magisterial quietude: Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan...