Word: rev
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...African-American critics say the urban-survival defense harks back to a time when blacks were seen as an indistinguishable whole: volatile, angry and presumed guilty. "((The Osby mistrial)) says 'these folks' can't help shooting each other," says the Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Fort Worth minister. "And it says to already nervous law-enforcement officials that they'd better be ready to draw when they stop someone in our community...
...Rev. Eugene Rivers' 83, a Boston activist who maintains a presence on Harvard's campus, is literally risking his life to fight gangs, racism and drugs...
Edelman is the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar. She has been involved in social activism in Washington since the late 1960's, when she worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King...
Former President Richard Nixon was buried Wednesday after a ceremony at his boyhood home in Yorba Linda, California. Among the 3,000 mourners were delegates from more than 80 countries and five U.S. Presidents, including Bill Clinton, who delivered one of four eulogies. The service, led by the Rev. Billy Graham, focused on Nixon's foreign policy achievements, touching only obliquely upon the Watergate scandal. "He achieved greatly, and he suffered deeply," said former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "But he never gave up." Earlier, an estimated 42,000 visitors had stood for hours in chilly, damp weather...
After months of turmoil over U.S. policy in Haiti, Lawrence Pezzullo, the U.S. special envoy to Haiti, was forced to resign.The Administration has come under increasing fire for its unsuccessful policy, enduring public protests by members of Congress and harsh criticism from the deposed Haitian President, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide...