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...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Hope segues to despair with John F Kennedy’s assassination a few months later....
...The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, by Peniel E Joseph, Basic Books, RRP$30/£25, 384 pages In the year of Black Lives Matter, this comparative biography...
...A slight young man buzzing with nervous energy, White has a message for the handful of people who happen to drift by this Washington DC street corner close to where Martin Luther King Jr Avenue meets Malcolm...
...Vienna Polymath 1,060: Liz Wicken, Cambridge, England Crossword 16,389: David Riddle, Woodford Green, Greater London; AH Harker, Oxford; Brendan Quigley, Brookline, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,059: Malcolm...
...Back then Tommie Smith and John Carlos were inspired by the Black Power movement, reflecting the anger of the Black Panthers and Malcolm X and the urgency of Martin Luther King Jr....
...It’s hard to think of a child of my generation not playing cowboys and Indians or watching John Wayne and Gary Cooper in action against the Indians — who were always the enemy....
...His pleas fell on deaf ears: Carlos’s aversion to racism had been forged in Harlem where he came to know Malcolm X. Not protesting was inconceivable. “Jesse Owens was doing what he was doing....
...The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins University recently identified the top 10 worst behaviours to be avoided in the workplace....
...No doubt the challenge for any candidate is to handle a shareholder register led by Joe Lewis and Ireland’s JP McManus and John Magnier....
...Malcolm X 20. Charles de Gaulle 21. Queen Victoria 22. Joschka Fischer, German Green party politician 23. Hillary Clinton 24. Golda Meir, Israeli PM, 1969-74 25. Martin Luther King Jr.26....
...Indeed, when polyester was invented – in 1950, by DuPont chemists JT Dickson and JR Whinfield – it was thought it might herald the end of cotton clothing....
...Brady was the patrician former CEO of brokerage firm Dillon, Read & Co, and Malcolm Chace Jr’s nephew — a member of the family that had sold Berkshire Fine Spinning to Hathaway Manufacturing, thereby forming...
...Jeff Immelt, chairman and chief executive, General Electric • Barbarians at the Gate, by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar....
...martin.dickson@ft.com...
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