Word: writing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, I do recall there being pressure--mostly self-imposed--to fulfill the double-duty of being not only a good sportswriter, but also a Black journalist who presents a Black perspective in other parts of the paper. I attended many boring news meetings. I ordered myself to write features, editorials, anything which has meaning outside of sports...
Although I tell myself I shouldn't be, I am also disappointed that I have not published more opinion pieces. Make no mistake about it, I did write a lot of editorials. But most of them became deleted files. I was concerned I was not saying anything new, important of particularly enlightening...
...must admit there was also fear on my behalf that my liberal colleagues would allow me to write anything I wished. My fear was they would be either (a) gung-ho for something controversial to be in the newspaper or (b) gun-shy at being labeled racist for possibly censoring a Black...
Completely absorbed in the struggle for survival, Black Greeks have no time to merely write books about the "myriad of social pathologies" plaguing the Black community, including teen pregnancy, drug abuse and illiteracy. We take an active stance. We get things done. And though we are open to those seeking information, we have adopted a policy similar to that of the Harvard academic community: the knowledge is here for your consumption, but we will not spoon-feed it to you. Spending our time proselytizing would mean one less Black child that we got off the streets and into a tutoring...
...Biochemistry, planned to study in Europe for a year and been interviewed by a crimson reporter who quoted our conversation. While I have learned other such "news" about myself in the course of the year without responding, two recent statements in this paper concerned me sufficiently to now write...