Scholastic Update articles from November 1994

Scholastic Update archives from November 1994

Crisis in the Caribbean. (US military intervention in Haiti) (Cover Story)
November 4, 1994... One would have to have a heart of stone not to feel saddened by the plight of Haiti. By almost every measure, the tiny Caribbean island nation ranks as one of the most desperate and oppressed in the world. For most of its history, Haiti's 7...

Operation: restore democracy. (US military intervention in Haiti)(includes related article) (Cover Story)
November 4, 1994... On September 19, as dawn broke over the crystal green waters of the Caribbean, American warships glided into the harbor of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. As one fleet of Blackhawk helicopters patrolled the sky, another descended onto the airport,...

"There is no justice here." (lives of two Haitian teenagers)
November 4, 1994... PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--Bronson St. Vil was 14 that night in November 1992, when thugs of the military-backed Haitian government burst into his home. They were after his father, Bruny St. Vil, a member of an anti-government underground group...

The fire last time. (US military occupation of Haiti in 1915)
November 4, 1994... In September, when U.S. Marines began pouring into the island nation of Haiti, President Clinton went on the air to comfort a skeptical public. "This mission will be limited in time and scope," he said. "It is clearly designed to provide a...

U.S. Cuba policy: lost at sea? (Cuban immigration to the US)
November 4, 1994... Even as American Marines landed in Haiti in September, a simmering political crisis threatened to boil over in another Caribbean nation where the U.S. has frequently intervened: Cuba. Last summer, a severe economic depression in that island...

Halfway to the American dream. (detention of Haitian and Cuban refugees)
November 4, 1994... Fourteen-year-old Jean Joseph remembers the last time he laid eyes on his parents. It was May 18, 1992. He was sitting on a small boat, laden with 294 men, women, and children, just off the shores of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Haitian police...

Forty years and counting. (Linda Brown Thompson, daughter of man who started Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS)
November 18, 1994... Forty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court fired a shot whose echoes reverberate across the nation to this day. In a case known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Court's nine Justices declared unanimously that America's public...

What is race, anyway? (dividing people by race)
November 18, 1994... Last winter, the small town of Wedowee, Alabama, became the latest flashpoint of racial tension in America. The white principal of Randolph County High School had gathered the student body together to find out how many juniors and seniors...

Race and class. (problems of school integration)(includes related article)
November 18, 1994... After school, the regulars are hanging out on the south steps of Teaneck High School in Teaneck, New Jersey. They are black, white, Hispanic, and Jewish. "In Teaneck, everyone is different," says one girl. "That's why everyone gets along so...

A crack in the wall. (history of school integration in the South)
November 18, 1994... Forty years ago last May, the entire country had its eye on the Supreme Court. Just before 1 p.m. on the 17th, nine black-robed Justices filed into the huge chamber and took their places at the long mahogany bench. One Justice, recovering from...

Equal opportunity on trial. (upcoming Supreme Court civil rights cases)
November 18, 1994... From the days of slavery to its historic 1954 ruling against racial segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court has played a critical role in defining national policy on race and equality. This fall, with race relations...

Is justice color-blind? (racial issues in O.J. Simpson murder case)
November 18, 1994... When O.J. Simpson was arrested for a shocking double murder last June, Americans were stunned to see the Hall of Fame football star carted off to jail. Initial news reports focused on the spectacle of a fallen celebrity, and Simpson's history...

Living in a multicolored world. (race relations)
November 18, 1994... Look in almost any high school cafeteria and you'll find a study in segregation. Blacks tend to sit with blacks, whites with whites, Asians with Asians, Hispanics with Hispanics. There are no laws telling students whom to eat with, no police...