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Marshall said she has watched the way South African justices handle the economic rights afforded by the South African constitution, which include access to water, education, and health care...
Marshall was one of only several girls in her South African high school to pursue a college degree...
...decades; in the city of Martinsville, unemployment has soared over 20%. Outside such liberal enclaves as Charlottesville, the district is a conservative stronghold of farms and small-business owners who resent federal intrusions. In 2008, Perriello cashiered incumbent Republican Virgil Goode by capitalizing on an Obama-fueled turnout of African-American and college-age voters. And while Perriello held 21 health care town halls last summer, the most of any member of Congress, his support of health care reform and cap-and-trade legislation - as well as the district's natural tilt - has stamped a bull...
Young, an associate professor and director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at BC, said she is interested in “how the Civil Rights legacy is being understood and reframed after 9/11” and why the Bush administration chose to link the “overcoming of black oppression” with the “so-called war with freedom and democracy...
Audience members suggested she contact more black war veterans, explore popular reaction to the television shows and music discussed in her paper, and also that she address the domestic implications that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have had on African American soldiers...