Word: jr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theme in the black community that in the past 25 years seemed to go out of fashion, at least at the leadership level of the civil rights movement: self-determination, responsibility. This sterner theme, developed well before emancipation and repeated by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. and generation after generation of struggling black fathers and mothers, instructed: the antidote to racism is excellence...
Once, in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr. told some black college students about the Aristotelian bigot. This bigot, said King, constructed a syllogism: All men are made in the image of God; God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro; therefore, the Negro is not a man. The black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts, and 180,000 other blacks who served in the Civil War, took that syllogism and burned it to ashes...
President: Reginald K. Brack Jr...
Along with Yolanda King, Martin Luther King Jr's oldest daughter, Shabazz now spends much of her time working with a theater group whose aim is to teach minority children about their heritage...
...possibilities are endless, and I could definitely top them with horror stories of my own. Although nobody would confuse me with Ms. Omniscient of the Globe, reverse-advice attrition might just be the wave of the future. If people were willing to listen to Morton Downey, Jr. scream at them, they are open for anything...