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...40th anniversary of brown v. board of education on May 17 unleashed a torrent of earnest commentary on the nation's op-ed pages. Story after story deplored America's lack of racial progress since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation with that landmark decision. Somehow all the hand-wringing analysis overlooked a small but telling example of how far some blacks have come during the past four decades: the case of Joseph Jett...
...last failed attempt to return was for his 40th reunion in 1989, just a few months before the Berlin Wall fell. At that time the government told him he would likely spend time in the brig upon his return...
...40th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark school- desegregation decision, the Justice Department went to court to oust Hulond Humphries, the Alabama high school principal who made headlines earlier this year by reportedly trying to stop interracial dating at his school's prom. Justice accused the school district of engaging in discriminatory practices...
More than 2,200 high school students are in Cambridge this weekend for the 40th annual Harvard Model United Nations simulation--a four-day event that represents the culmination of a semester of class research or extracurricular work for delegates and nine months of feverish preparation for 130 Harvard organizers...
...honor was given as part of "Celebration 40," a series of events this weekend marking the 40th anniversary of women graduates at the Law School...