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That's why it's so urgent to know who that third Cabinet choice might be. Last week sources involved in the transition floated the name of William Gray, a Democratic former Congressman from Philadelphia who now heads the United Negro College Fund, as a possible Secretary of Education. One big reason: the fund has been a favorite Bush-family charity since the days of W.'s grandfather Prescott. But when I talked to Gray last week, he made it clear that he's not interested. He is opposed to key elements of Bush's education-reform proposals, especially vouchers...
Still, if Gray is too liberal for a Bush Cabinet, there are many other respected African-American politicians and scholars who might be willing to join it, provided they were given some real influence over policy. Some of my black Republican friends are pushing the Rev. Floyd Flake, pastor of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., who, despite spending six terms as a Democratic member of Congress, endorsed Republican Rudy Giuliani for mayor of New York City. Flake, whose 10,000-member congregation supports an independent academy that offers an alternative to the area's lousy public...
...funds to pay Byrd--but it still hasn't done so. State senator Rodney Ellis plans to introduce a bill in January to make it easier to collect compensation, but observers say it is not likely to pass. The situation is somewhat better in California, where in September Governor Gray Davis signed a law to pay innocent men and women $100 for every day spent in prison. But it won't affect Ricky Daye--the law doesn't apply to older cases...
...brac. Persevering, he bought new equipment and traveled to the Hampstead Institute in Virginia, where he did his most modernist work. Hampstead was a progressive "college" for black and Native American students. The pictures that Day did there are flat, forthright portraits of confident subjects. They feature beautiful, dark gray tones set in a black field, punctuated by the whites of his subjects' eyes. In this series, Day seems to have become comfortable with the documentary attitude of much modern photography...
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