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  • 80 liberals each pledge $1 million for alliance

    08/07/2005 9:16:15 AM PDT · by visagoth · 72 replies · 2,553+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 8-7-2005 | THOMAS B. EDSALL
    <p>WASHINGTON - At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute at least $1 million each to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups, to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up during the last three decades.</p>
  • 30 years after busing, is Massachusetts ready for black governor?

    09/09/2006 10:59:18 AM PDT · by Panerai · 15 replies · 501+ views
    Boston.com ^ | 09/09/2006 | Glen Johnson
    BOSTON --In April 1976, Ted Landsmark was walking near City Hall when he stumbled into an antibusing demonstration. The photo of a white man using an American flag to spear Landsmark, who is black, won a Pulitzer Prize and branded Boston as racially intolerant. Thirty years later, Landsmark is president of the Boston Architectural College. And he watches with great interest as another black man, Deval Patrick, runs neck-and-neck with his opponents in the Democratic gubernatorial race. The question is whether Massachusetts voters today are ready to elect their first black governor. The Democratic primary is Sept. 19. The general...