Posted on August 9, 2006 by thestateofblog
Monday evening, Chicago Cops shot and critically wounded a young African-American teen near Cabrini-Green. Many in the community were outraged at the shooting an organized a March past the nearby police station. The father of the teen expressed his outrage as well.
“The police harassed me every day, every day. And now it’s got [...]
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Posted on August 9, 2006 by thestateofblog
“The film - “A Girl Like Me” - re-creates Kenneth Clark’s 1940s doll test that was used to fight school segregation in the landmark Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education. In Clark’s studies, he and his wife, Mamie Clark, found that the majority of black children they tested chose white [...]
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Posted on August 9, 2006 by thestateofblog
“Israel now faces a problem in Lebanon similar to the problem faced by the United States in Iraq: it must try to win a “victory” in order to justify its foolish decision to go to war, and only then can it withdraw. But even if Israel manages to drive north to the [...]
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