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To many, these words are simply characteristic of the tempestuous civil rights era, but might they also characterize an enduring theme of the Black struggle in America? The question has become grave today, with the Reagan administration's policies jeopardizing recently acquired benefits. Can and will Blacks continue to advance...
But in the long term, Barone says, Democrats must reevaluate their priorities, "do an inventory on the country." One issue on which he thinks Democrats might re-think their position is affirmative action, which, Barone says, "often holds society up to a standard that a fair society couldn't meet...
While the white middle class has nearly abandoned the city's public schools, it has not abandoned the school committee. For years, the committee was either a stepping stone for higher office or a place to collect the benefits of an extensive patronage system. Often it was both. With the...
Incumbents Elvira "Pixie" Palladino and John McDonough were implicated in fellow committeman Gerald O'Leary's extortion scheme, but cleared in a subsequent trial. McDonough barely made the final election, though, and has been a weak candidate in the past; he may have been hurt too much by the bad...
Endorsing "the idea of neighborhood schools," Leary adds that many parents have told her they did not want their children riding buses if there were schools nearby. Dealing with busing, thought, Leary admits, is a sticky problem from a legal standpoint since the city is using it as part of...