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A disservice to Jocelyn Elders.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
I read the cover article of the current issue of Color-Lines ("What Your Doctor Won't See ..."). Overall, a really useful article. But, I was brought to tears when I saw David Satcher identified as the first Black Surgeon General of the U.S. No, no, no! Not again? And by ColorLines?
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Can you put a pretty visible and humble apology in the next issue of the magazine? Not just a dry correction. But, please, an authentic that-was-a-serious-mistake acknowledgement? And also maybe consider ways to think about how a future story could highlight and ...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News January 7, 2003 700+ words
...those registrants who entered the San Francisco INS office. "When there's secrecy, there's no accountability," said Heba Nimr, an attorney with the INS Watch-La Raza Centro Legal, a San Francisco non-profit group that monitors INS enforcement...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Mangaliman, Jessie Kuruvila, Matthai Chakko January 3, 2003 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Fernandez, Lisa December 18, 2001 700+ words
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