Scholastic Update articles from December 1995

Scholastic Update archives from December 1995

Still separate, still unequal? (racial division)(Cover Story)
December 8, 1995... It was a scene that occurred in front of millions of television sets around the country. On October 4, as a Los Angeles jury declared O. J. Simpson not guilty of murder, the nation seemed to split in half. Shock and sadness. Relief and...

The color of money. (racial discrimination; affirmative action)(includes related articles quoting Coretta Scott King and William Bennett on racial discrimination)
December 8, 1995... FOCUS: On the issues As you read this article, consider these questions: * Is there still a need for affirmative action programs? Why might middle-class blacks feel more connected to poor blacks than to middle-class whites? * Have...

Reading, writing and race. (racial discrimination; inner-city schools)(includes Bill Bradley's and Studs Terkel's opinions on racial discrimination)
December 8, 1995... Colin Powell has toured the ruins of desolate, bombed-out Kuwaiti cities during the Gulf War. This past fall, the former General and head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff toured a different kind of battleground: the hallways of his alma mater, Morris...

Is justice color blind? (criminal-justice system)(includes Spike Lee's opinion on racism)
December 8, 1995... Suspicion." That was the official reason given by the Middletown, Connecticut, police for handcutting four Wesleyan College students on the night of November 2. Suspicion of what? "Suspicion of being black," says Janel Davis, 18, a Wesleyan...

A world apart? (racial division statistics)(Illustration)
December 8, 1995... Are we divided by race? The numbers show that might be true. SCHOOL DAYS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] UNEQUAL PAYCHECKS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HIGH CRIME RATES... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ... OR UNEQUAL TREATMENT [ILLUSTRATION...

Serving up some justice. (racial discrimination case against Denny's Inc.)(includes related advice on how to address racial discrimination)
December 8, 1995... When African-American teens were denied service at a Denny's restaurant, they took on a multimillion-dollar corporation and won Shortly after midnight on December 30, 1991, 15-year-old Sharra Clausell, her 19-year-old brother Kenny, and 16 of...

Red Emma. (Emma Goldman; World War I anarchist)
December 8, 1995... Emma Goldman, the fiery Russian-born radical, was asking for trouble. Thousands of American boys were on their way to France to take their chances in the trenches of World War I and she was in the mood to protest. In New York City, while two...

Land for peace. (Yitzhak Rabin and Israel's border disputes)
December 8, 1995... On the evening of November 4, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin left a rally of 100,000 Israelis gathered to cheer his tireless efforts to forge peace with the region's Palestinian Arabs. Just before Rabin reached his bulletproof Cadillac, a Jewish...

Race, justice and O.J. (O.J. Simpson verdict)(Readers' Page)(Column)
December 8, 1995... For 16 months, Americans were mesmerized by the story of O.J. Simpson, the football hero charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman. High school students were no exception. "I followed the trial like a...