Introduction. I. The Pathogenesis of Obesity: History, Etiology, and The Social Epidemic. A. The Gay Nineties and the Portly Trencherman: A Brief History of American Perceptions of Obesity. B. A Shocking Pandemic: The Epidemiology of Obesity. 1. A Global Crisis: The Scourge of the Developed World. 2. The Inversely Proportional Relationship of Income and Obesity. 3. The Mammy Complex: The Cultural Anachronism of Obesity and Race. C. Obesity and the Genomic Model: Surfeit, Shortage, and the Impetus of Culture. 1. What Watson and Crick Never Saw Coming: When the Double Helix Leads to Double XL. II. The Conduct That America Loves to Hate: State and Federal Panaceas for the Obesity Epidemic. A. Obesity and Economics: The Market Failure Paradigm. B. The Evolution of the Nanny State: Federal M...
Dorothy Cotton is up early in her cozy Atlanta apartment, getting ready. She slips on a pink skirt and a matching jacket and a chic, knit hat. It's a big day, a huge day really, and she wants to look her best. She's flying to Memphis with her boss, her confidante, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. For Cotton, 37, the early-morning anticipation of April 3, 1968, is just part of living in the swirl of America's most recognized civil rights leader. The man people love. The man people hate. King is under such crushing pressure of late, though, Cotton knows there hasn't been a more pivotal day for him or his cause.
HOPEWELL - The most contested race in the run for Hopewell City Council seats is a special election in which five candidates are seeking the seat vacate by civil rights icon the Rev. Curtis Harris. A total of five candidates are running for the Ward 2 seat, vacated by Harris earlier this year - two years before the end of his term.
A Hypothetical: I. Modern Civil Rights Litigation: Is There Anything Left? II. A Dialectic Tale Of The Demise Of Civil Rights Law III. What Does It Mean? The Paradox Of Civil Rights Law IV. The Symposium's Take On The Questions
OKLAHOMA CITY - As she watched a television broadcast of President Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009, Clara Luper had tears in her eyes. The Oklahoma civil rights icon knew that her and other activists' struggle had reached a milestone with the election of the nation's first black president. This is our day," she said at the time, calling his inauguration the "fulfillment of dreams of people.
According to Caro, the Western Democrats traded their votes on civil rights for a dam authorization on the IdahoOregon border. [...] it was Eisenhower who broke the Democrats' hold on the South*in 1952, and if anyone was appealing to bigots that year, it wasn't Eisenhower. By contrast, segregationist Democrats routinely criticized the exercise of federal power and expenditure of federal funds when it involved ending discrimination against blacks ? but gladly accepted federal pork projects for their states.
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