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01/06/2006:

"What about the quality of justice from Blacks?"

Active Value man to back black Africans
Julian Treger, the activist investor known for causing a number of boardroom bust-ups in the City, has emerged as a key player in an investment vehicle seeking to finance black economic empowerment in his native South Africa.

Killing continues in Darfur

To the Death: George Bush and the Addiction to War
It was a moment choreographed for spectacle, one that has been replayed countless times throughout history. Although the props were larger and more magnificent, the message was the same: We are the victors and we have won. But grown larger as well were the accompanying lies that say we went to war only with great reluctance; that it was our solemn duty to vanquish the evil other; that we are not in love with war. All addictions require lies.

Negative expectations color racial interactions
Despite a culture that increasingly values diversity, many people still find interacting with those from another racial group tense and awkward.

What about the quality of justice from Blacks?
As I looked at the Black superintendent of police in New Orleans, Warren Riley, on television recently, justifying the killing of a Black man on the streets of the city by his police force – perhaps by bullets fired by the lone Black policeman among the three – I knew that this was not a result for which the civil rights movement was fought.

Black leaders urge CU to fight racism
Black community leaders on Tuesday urged the University of Colorado to recruit more minority students and faculty, and to protect them from harassment after a string of racially tinged incidents on the Boulder campus.

SA politician claims hotel racist
South African politician Patricia de Lille says that she was twice prevented from entering a bar in a Cape Town hotel because she is of mixed race.

Grammy-winning singer Lou Rawls dies at 72
LOS ANGELES — Lou Rawls, who earned fame with his glorious voice and respect through his prodigious fundraising for the United Negro College Fund, died Friday of cancer.





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