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Johnny who? Even many civil rights activists in the U.S. would be puzzled by the Soviet press campaign on behalf of a "new Martin Luther King" who was on the verge of becoming a martyr of American racist injustice. A native of Birmingham, Harris, 32, seems an improbable choice as a hero. In 1974 he was serving five consecutive life sentences for robbery and rape.Then, during a riot at Fountain Correctional Center at Atmore, Ala., Harris killed a white guard by stabbing him 27 times with a homemade knife. At his 1975 trial, Harris was sentenced to death under...
...automatons who run around yelling "Heil Hitler!" The effect of such theatrics is to rob genocide of its meaning; audiences can dismiss the Final Solution as the creation of a few madmen. In Holocaust, most Nazis are seemingly normal people who all too easily answer the call of a racist and fascist government. One of the show's principal characters is an intelligent lawyer and family man, Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), who rises in the SS by dreaming up "legal" justifications for the Führer's extermination program. We also meet doctors, technicians and clergymen who lend...
Charles Ogletree, national president of the Black Law Students Association, told the marchers that black families in Boston "continue to be driven from their homes in predominantly white neighborhoods." Police arrest blacks for defending themselves "while their racist attackers have gone free," he added...
...These types of racist attacks go part and parcel with the kind of discrimination that led to the Bakke case," Ogletree, a third-year student at the Law School, said...
...ACSR report makes recommendations that for several reasons fall far short of any reasonable, justifiable stand against companies supporting apartheid. First, the report focuses on the support U.S. firms give the apartheid system through the labor practices they employ in South Africa. While racist labor policies certainly constitute a significant aspect of American corporate complicity in apartheid, they divert attention from the bigger issues of U.S. corporate involvement. U.S. corporations employ a total of less than 1 per cent of the South African black labor force, so any improvement in American labor practices will have virtually no effect...