Issue: 458

F. Scott Fitzgerald described the Ivy Club at Princeton University as being “breathlessly aristocratic”. That was in 1920. It was no less aristocratic in 1970 when Philip Bobbitt was its president. Bobbitt can trace his pedigree to the early southern colonies in the 1600s and names his uncle Lyndon Johnson as one of his mentors.…

The African-American Liberation Movement which emerged since 1619 and particularly from 1675 with the crushing of the Bacon Rebellion, to the present; developed as a national democratic movement of an oppressed minority oppressed on the basis of race, class and gender. Some people call Africa-Americans an �oppressed nation� or a �nation within a nation.� But…

In addition to his family Paul Cuffe remembered the Society of Friends in Westport, leaving fifty dollars to �be paid over to their treasurer, by my executors, according to the direction of the monthly meeting.�� Cuffe�s parents are said to have adhered to Quaker principles though they were not Quakers.� Cuffe joined the Westport Meeting…

A listening-person does not need to �dive� very deeply into our experience here in this country to encounter bedrock oppressive �American� values that are barriers to justice for all. I should say �U.S.� values since America includes all of North America, Central America, and South America; people from countries outside the U.S. have fallen silent…

The case of Reggie Clemons represents everything that is wrong with the death penalty and the U.S. criminal justice system. His case reminds us of Troy Davis, a black man who was executed by the state of Georgia in September, despite strong evidence of innocence, no physical evidence, another suspect and unreliable witnesses, not to…