Category: Identity

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Street musicians in Budapest.

The Alienated Generation

When the young generation, free from the malevolent influence of the ‘old’, arises, everything will change….We must postpone our hopes to the remote future, to a time when the Center and every dependent state will supply its citizens with refrigerators and automobiles, with white bread

Many Jews argue that blacks should be especially upset by the comments of Jesse Jackson or Louis Farrakhan because they know what it is like to have groups act against them and push them to the outside.

Journey to Israel

JERUSALEM–The jogging path from the hotel ran past a street named in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. A month earlier, in January, the Israeli Parliament had held a special session commemorating King’s birthday. Leaflets had been distributed to all the schools describing, in

Karen Howze, 35, a managing editor for USA Today.

The Price of Success

On a typical weekday morning, black women are blazing new trails across America. In the nation’s capital, Karen Howze, 35, a managing editor for USA Today – circulation 1.4 million – joined the paper’s other editors for a daily story conference. Karen Howze, 35, a

An Israeli brochure commemorating the 1963 Civil Rights march on Washington, DC. Twenty years later blacks and Jews would be at loggerheads over a number of issues.

A Broken Alliance

The United States Army was still segregated in April, 1945. Blacks fought in separate companies commanded by separate officers. As the war neared an end, allied troops pushed east to Berlin and south toward Austria. General Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted to wrap up the war

Nanine Watson with husband Carl and daughters Camille (left) and Remi (right).

The Dilemma of The Black Middle Class

SAN FRANCISCO–The reminders and discomforts linger painfully close to the surface and can be aroused by something as seemingly simple as a case of mistaken identity. On a weekday morning last spring, a white attorney was ushered into Federal Judge Thelton Henderson’s decorous chambers and