Rachel Gates's List: Martin Luther King Jr.

• The tape   showed  five white cops and one black officer repeatedly beating Jones      with metal batons as they knocked him to  the   ground, fell on him and  handcuffed     his arms   behind his  back. After being hit dozens of times, Jones—a 350-pound man      with a history of severe hypertension and  an   enlarged heart—stopped  breathing.     He was   left in  the parking lot of a fast food restaurant without the police      taking any emergency measures to save his  life   before an ambulance arrived.      Jones was   pronounced dead at the hospital.
• The tape showed five white cops and one black officer repeatedly beating Jones  with metal batons as they knocked him to the ground, fell on him and handcuffed  his arms behind his back. After being hit dozens of times, Jones—a 350-pound man  with a history of severe hypertension and an enlarged heart—stopped breathing.  He was left in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant without the police  taking any emergency measures to save his life before an ambulance arrived.  Jones was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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  The tape  showed five white cops and one black officer repeatedly beating Jones    with metal batons as they knocked him to the  ground, fell on him and handcuffed   his arms  behind his back. After being hit dozens of times, Jones—a 350-pound man    with a history of severe hypertension and an  enlarged heart—stopped breathing.   He was  left in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant without the police    taking any emergency measures to save his life  before an ambulance arrived.   Jones was  pronounced dead at the hospital.

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• new book
• racial firestorm
• Reid noted that then Senator Obama might be successful because  he was light-skin and didn’t speak with a ‘Negro Dialect’.
• Harry Reid

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• The future looms large. But for the 54 students in the class of 2009 at  Montgomery County High School, so, too, does the past. On May 1 — a balmy Friday  evening — the white students held their senior prom. And the following night — a  balmy Saturday — the black students had theirs.