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...this initiative to succeed, it must usher in a new understanding of the remaining racial divide that fits the realities of our times. Without such a new understanding, the tough work of reconciliation and reform that lies ahead will be that much harder to achieve. Although our racial landscape is now much more diverse including substantial and heterogeneous Latino and Asian communities, I want to point out four aspects of relations specifically between African-Americans and Euro-Americans that such a new understanding should emphasize...
...first of several turning points, and it worked. That afternoon, when Hillary arrived in Harlem to visit an after-school program, the crowd was jeering reporters, chanting, "Leave Bill alone!" The next day was the First Lady's turn, to usher a new villain onstage. The ground had been carefully laid: Clinton's defenders had been attacking Starr as a vigilante armed "with a loaded subpoena." Clinton lawyer Bob Bennett had filed a motion, which read like a press release, to move up the date of the Paula Jones trial, scheduled to start in May. He charged that Starr "intentionally...
...school's Martin Luther King award for an essay on "How Technology Has Progressed." "He was a positive role model here," says Shareef's half-brother Ellis Cropper, with whom he lived for a time. "He got A's and B's, played varsity football and served as an usher in church...He wanted to be an accountant so he could manage the money he was going to make as an athlete...
Bono never aimed for poetry in his songs (nor, of course, was he blessed with good pipes), but he came to occupy an important place in the history of rock regardless. "He helped usher the genre from '50s-'60s pop to the folk-rock era of the later '60s," notes Jim Henke, chief curator of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and museum. "People didn't think about it at the time," says singer Chrissie Hynde, "but Sonny was a great songwriter...
...helped, of course, that he was a pretty common man himself. Born Usher (later changed to Arthur) Fellig in 1899, Weegee was the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. He dropped out of high school, then moved out of his parents' Lower East Side apartment in New York City while still in his teens, spending some time homeless, scuttling through public parks, shelters and menial jobs, all the while hoping for regular work in a photo studio--an ambition he picked up while working as an assistant to an itinerant street photographer. Depending on which story you believe, his nickname...