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Letters: FDR, Jews and the war
Re "What FDR said in private," Opinion, April 7 As an American and a Jew, I found Rafael Medoff's criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his private comments about Jews most unfair. FDR understood that the best way to end the Holocaust was to defeat...Tags: Judaism, Barack Obama, Human Rights, Germany, Cambodia
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Frank Godden dies at 101; helped develop African American resort
Los Angeles Times Frank Godden, who played a significant role in the development of Val Verde, a secluded and long-closed local resort community known as "the black Palm Springs," has died. He was 101. Godden, who had cancer, died Aug. 3 at his Los...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Los Angeles Hotels, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, George Washington Carver
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'Posing Beauty in African American Culture' show at USC
Los Angeles TimesA fashion show in Harlem in 1963, a portrait of a contemplative Michael Jackson in 1981 and a picture of friends celebrating their prom night in 2006 are among images on view in the exhibition "Posing Beauty in African American Culture" at USC's Fisher...Tags: Entertainment, Social Issues, Culture, Joe Louis, Arts
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Tamales, L.A.'s original street food
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSouthern California's latest foodie trend has the region atwitter. Lines form long into the night at the latest hot spot for edible treasures, while wily entrepreneurs outdo each other by parking at the best spots. But not everyone is happy. Brick-and-...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Bars and Clubs, Portland (Multnomah, Oregon), Minority Groups, Clubs and Associations
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Breastfeeding counteracts risk for a type of cancer, study says
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African American women have higher rates of a type of breast cancer that isn't dependent for growth on the hormones estrogen or progesterone. They also have a higher rate of childbearing...Tags: Medical Research, Breastfeeding, Diseases and Illnesses, Physical Conditions, Human Body
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White and mixed-race youths rank high in alcohol, substance abuse
The first-ever survey of adolescent alcohol and drug abuse to recognize youths of mixed race or ethnicity has found that such kids hover closest to white adolescents in the rate at which they suffer substance abuse disorders. That is not reassuring,...Tags: Native Americans, Recreational Substance Use, Juvenile Delinquency, Minority Groups, Health
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Jackson residents reflect on relations beyond 'The Help' lens
On a recent steamy Saturday evening, 11 members of Deborah Rae Wright's book club — black, white, Indian and Jewish women — gathered in her meticulously restored Craftsman home on the rundown west side of the Mississippi capital. The topic was...Tags: Judaism, Movies, CNN (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice, Emma Stone
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Stetson Kennedy dies at 94; writer exposed the KKK
Author and folklorist Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan six decades ago and exposed its secrets but decades later was criticized for appearing to exaggerate his exploits, died Saturday at a medical center near St. Augustine, Fla. He was...Tags: Superman (fictional character), Zora Neale Hurston, Woody Guthrie, Ku Klux Klan, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer dies at 71; wrote 'Buffalo Afternoon'
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, a poet and novelist whose well-regarded 1989 novel "Buffalo Afternoon" examined the Vietnam War and its long and complex echo throughout American life, died Friday in Chicago. She was 71.
Fromberg Schaeffer, who had been a...Tags: University of Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Brooklyn (New York City), Vietnam War (1955-1975), Wars and Interventions
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The consequences of letting it rip in 1974
So there's my name, on Page 1 of "Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980," the Getty's massive overview catalog for its monumental effort to get Southern California modern art into the heretofore New York-centric history of American modernism....Tags: Robert Hughes, Artists, Edward Ruscha, The Getty, Dick Cheney
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Newton: Creating a Latino district
There are two conversations going on inside the L.A. County Hall of Administration about the delicate matter of redrawing maps for the supervisorial districts. Both will come to a head Tuesday, but only one will be publicly acknowledged.
The surface...Tags: Steve Cooley, Antonio Villaraigosa, Gloria Molina, Social Issues, Hispanic and Latino Americans
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