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...Racially, this may be the most dynamic era in American history. Conflicting things seem to be true all once. We?ve had two black Secretaries of State, and yet the man they work for is generally hated by black America. Last year Los Angeles elected its first Latino mayor, and yet the immigration debate has dredged up old demons of nativism. The Arab world is moving toward democracy, and yet Arab men seem to have eclipsed black men as Public Enemy No. 1. Even the racial aspects of the Hurricane Katrina disaster are quite subtle. President Bush's performance...
...firm in the city.” This, in turn, is code for, “I will work until I’m miserable and then develop a drug habit to fuel my unfulfilling social life.” It’s a bit like the WWII-era Enigma code machine, if you replace the Nazis with a bunch of d-bags. In other words, it’s finally Senior Spring, and chaches are flying out of the woodwork at record pace. Over spring break, an aggressive portion of the senior class moved en masse to Acapulco...
...attire, the staffers nosh on ribs and biscuits, sipping sweet tea on the country house’s wraparound porch that overlooks the shaded creek below. The home’s current owner, a state mental health expert, snaps photos. The guests include local notables, including the civil rights era editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, Ray Jenkins...
This relationship unfolds against the carefully constructed backdrop of the 1960s. Wooley seems as interested in evocations of the era as he is in story telling. The film is just about as sex-obsessed and drug-crazed as Jones was—most of the characters are on their way to or from nakedness during most of the film, and time passes in psychedelic montages...
...display, however, at a recent rally and march organized by Jackson?s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to protest the April 22 primary. Thousands turned out to cheer the mayor, Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who equated the New Orleans election to the disenfranchisement efforts against blacks during the Civil Rights era. (Comedian Bill Cosby was welcomed too until he excoriated the crowd for the city?s high murder rate, drug-dealing ways and teenage pregnancies.) Nagin supporters like Candy Williams, who lost her New Orleans home in Katrina, vowed to get far-flung family members back to vote...