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(Nov. 14) -- When Ruby Bridges arrived for her first day at William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans 50 years ago, she thought it was Mardi Gras. People lined the streets, shouting and throwing things -- just like a Carnival parade. But these people weren't celebrating. At 6 years old, Bridges had been unwittingly thrust onto the grand stage of American history. Her parents had volunteered her to be the first black child to attend an all-white school in the South. Local law enforcement refused to protect her from the unruly mobs that surrounded her school, so every day she was ...
Last week, Mia and Luisita puzzled over whether or not labels are useful in defining who we are. This week, I'd like to ask whether our identity is determined fundamentally by what we do or by our blood. Yeah, I know. That's heady, metaphysical stuff for snowy days late in December. But it's a question directly raised in a landmark decision by Britain's Supreme Court, which ruled last Wednesday that it was illegal for a state-funded Jewish school to base its admissions policy on whether or not the applicant's mother was Jewish. ...
When our own Lynn Sweet asked President Obama about Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates the other night, he took the bait. He should not have. Or, at least, he shouldn't have said that Cambridge police handled the matter "stupidly." In fact, I would say the president's commenting on that issue was, well, stupid. ...
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