From The New York Times: Ronald W. Walters, who organized one of the nation’s first lunch-counter sit-ins to protest segregation as a young man and went on to become a leading scholar of the politics of race, died Friday in Bethesda, Md. He was 72 and lived in Silver Spring, Md. The cause was cancer, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Project IDOL in San Francisco
ALA San Francisco proved to be a colorful backdrop to important conversations that will provide a reference point in history of major change and crucial challenges. After a week of headlines of tragedies along the fault lines of race and inequality, the U. S. Supreme Court upheld Obamacare and ushered in same sex unions as … Continue reading