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Anna Reynolds, a former convict, with her ballot in Dothan, Ala. “Voting, that’s part of getting back to normal life,” she said.
By SHAILA DEWAN
Published: March 2, 2008
DOTHAN, Ala. — The Rev. Kenneth Glasgow, onetime criminal and founder of a ministry called The Ordinary People Society, spent years helping people [...]
She and her husband never lingered in the parking lot at shift change. That is when the anger of a long day comes seeping out. Cars get kicked and faces slapped over parking spots or fender benders. The traffic is a serpent. Cars jockey for a spot in line to make the quarter-mile crawl along [...]
WHO KILLS, WHO CUTS, WHO BOSSES DEPENDS ON RACE
By CHARLIE LEDUFF
Published: June 16, 2000
It must have been 1 o’clock. That’s when the white man usually comes out of his glass office and stands on the scaffolding above the factory floor. He stood with his palms on the rails, his elbows out. He looked like a [...]
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Tony Rezko, a developer, in Chicago in 2006. He goes on trial on corruption charges on Monday.
By MIKE McINTIRE and CHRISTOPHER DREW
Published: March 2, 2008
Tony Rezko was obviously in trouble. He was a defendant in at least a dozen lawsuits, federal investigators in Chicago were poking around, and his name was in [...]
HENRIETTA BELL WELLS, ONE OF THE REAL GREAT DEBATERS
Henrietta Bell Wells, seen in 2007 with actress Jurnee Smollett, was the subject of the movie The Great Debaters.
KEVIN FUJII: CHRONICLE
Feb. 28, 2008, 11:45PM
MS. WELLS BROKE DEBATE WALL
She was the only female on 1930 team for Wiley College who participated in the first collegiate interracial debate in [...]
