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This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013: I have some great memories of my teenage years, when I worked in the tunnel stockrooms beneath the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. The job itself was mundane: I stocked shelves with coon-skin caps and Mickey Mouse sweatshirts. On stormy days, we made emergency runs throughout…
Is it worth it? Is it wise? Can a district already so strapped for cash that it has to scrounge to keep teacher assistants on the payroll one more year afford to launch a multi-million dollar experiment to save the boys of Durham? Last week, The Herald-Sun reported about a proposed partnership between Durham Public…
When Julius LeVonne Chambers shook the foundations of intolerance with U.S. Supreme Court cases to force school system desegregation in Charlotte, opponents bombed his car. That didn’t stop him. A civil rights lawyer who also fought employment discrimination, Chambers saw his home and office bombed by enemies too. That didn’t stop him, either. Jack Boger,…
Maybe Gov. Pat McCrory and the N.C. Department of Transportation are onto something. Sure, it’s culturally and politically insensitive to start branding people with labels on their driver’s licenses. Right enough, many of the people who would receive these special provisionary licenses are Hispanic immigrants who were brought to this country as children and haven’t…