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May 21, 2009

Commentary

Los Angeles NAACP Life Achievement Award

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

I had a déjà vu moment last week while watching Los Angeles Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, receive the Los Angeles NAACP Chapter’s Life Achievement Award. Watching Sterling try to find the words of why he merited the award was like watching George Wallace try to convince black voters that he had changed from his segregationist…

I had a déjà vu moment last week while watching Los Angeles Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, receive the Los Angeles NAACP Chapter’s Life Achievement Award. Watching…

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Commentary

The Maroon Within Us!

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Dr. Asa G. Hilliard’s book, The Maroon Within Us, once again reminds us of a major problem that we, as African people in America, are besieged by. Dr. Hilliard described this problem as cultural surrender. In explaining the problem, Dr. Hilliard wrote, “African Americans remain one of the very few groups in the United States…

Dr. Asa G. Hilliard’s book, The Maroon Within Us, once again reminds us of a major problem that we, as African people in America, are besieged…

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Commentary

The Trustee and SIPC Use of Net Equity – National Affairs

By Lawrence R. Velvel, JD Columnist

I have read the descriptions by Helen Chaitman and Richard Shapiro of their meeting with Thomas McGowan of the SEC, Picard’s written statement published in Dealbook, and various comments by members of the Google groups about the oral statements by Picard and Harbeck (which I did not hear but which, one gathers, pretty much tracked…

I have read the descriptions by Helen Chaitman and Richard Shapiro of their meeting with Thomas McGowan of the SEC, Picard’s written statement published in Dealbook,…

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Guest Commentary

Green is the New Black, and Hope is the New Crack

By Dr. John Hayakawa Torok Guest Commentator

One of my mentors in civil rights law, discussing busing as a remedy in school desegregation litigation, said “green follows white.” He meant by this that in public schooling, money flows where the white students go. Black students bused from racially identifiable black districts to racially identifiable white districts benefited because their educational experience was…

One of my mentors in civil rights law, discussing busing as a remedy in school desegregation litigation, said “green follows white.” He meant by this that…

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