excerpts from “Brown University to Examine Debt to Slave Trade” By Pam Belluck, March 13, 2004, NYTimes
Dr. Ruth Simmons became the president of Brown University nearly three years ago and is the first African-American president of an Ivy League university. But the university she was chosen to lead had early links to slavery, with […]
excerpts from “Double Set Back for Justice Seekers”, Herb Boyd, The Black World Today, 3/14/04 (www.tbwt.org)
In Tulsa, U.S. Senior District Judge James Ellison ruled that the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the city and the state that destroyed Tulsa’s black neighborhood 83 years ago cannot seek reparations in court because of the long-expired statute of […]
excerpts from “Chinese and American Cultures Clash in Custody Battle for Girl” by Andrew Jacobs, www.nytimes.com, 3/2/04
For five years, Jack and Casey He and Jerry and Louise Baker have been tussling (in the courts) over a child who was born to the Hes, but who ended up with the Bakers for what both sides initially […]