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» Journalism Throughout the Ages

Going through articles in magazines' online archives can be really fun and interesting. Especially when you find gems like "THE NEGRO CRIME RATE: A FAILURE IN INTEGRATION," originally published in Time on April 21, 1958: "THEY are afraid to say so in public, but many of the North's big-city mayors groan in private that their biggest and most worrisome problem is the crime rate among Negroes."

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SLAVERY AFTER SLAVERY "The Journal-Constitution last week assembled a remarkable group to discuss a remarkable book: 'Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II.' The new book documents a South unknown to many —- a place in which white sheriffs, politicians and businessmen got rich by enslaving thousands of black men for decades after emancipation. The process was simple and evil: Black men were arrested on a pretext, shunted through a rigged system and then chained like animals and sent to work off their sentences or debts in coal mines and steel mills and on plantations."

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The Queen Of Contrition?

Probably not, but she could be bullied into it.

The Queen is coming to Virginia! The Queen is coming to Virginia! Oh, right. The British monarchy is a nearly obsolete, totally irrelevant (to us, anyway) institution that Americans neither care about nor let affect their lives? Well, it is a little interesting, isn't it? No? What if I told you Queen Elizabeth II may be apologizing for Britain's role in slavery when she crosses the pond to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Jamestown? For a woman who barely had it in her to make a statement expressing regret that Princess Diana died, it would be a pretty big deal.