Good News
"Let us treat men and women well;
treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Alabama State Troopers
- After a 22-year legal battle to see blacks represented at all levels of the Alabama State Troopers, two black officers are finally poised to take the final step -- promotion to the rank of major.
- Nissan Pulls License
- Nissan revokes the dealership of a man accused of using racial slurs.
- Chicago Banks Settle
- The Northern Trust Company, a lender in the Chicago area, and three of its affiliate banks agreed today to settle lending discrimination claims by compensating over 60 African Americans and Hispanics who were allegedly unfairly denied home mortgage loans and by taking other steps, the Justice Department announced.
- Ghettoes Slated for Destruction
- From Hartford and Newark to Denver and San Francisco, 100,000 apartments in the nation's worst public housing projects are being razed under a Federal program called Hope VI. The plan is to replace them with smaller developments that mix families of different incomes, while moving thousands of tenants into privately owned buildings.
- Blacks Support Clinton
- Editor's Note: This particular report demonstrates maturity in distinguishing political, cultural and spiritual differences that show up in racial surveys.
- Marge Schott On the Outs
- Pressure to oust March Schott from Baseball is succeeding.