Perspective: Affirmative action was killed by the Supreme Court, with Clarence Thomas striking a fatal blow.
At Southern Illinois University, the college newspaper was looking for a Black reporter to help cover the Black Panther Party and race riots in backwater Cairo, Ill. I’d worked on my high school newspaper and got the job. That work led to an internship at the Miami Herald, which was using affirmative action to give Black reporters an opportunity to cover the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami Beach in 1972. That led to a full-time job at the Herald.
In 1963, Black students gathered at Little Union Baptist Church in Shreveport to protest the Ku Klux Klan bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, in which four Black girls were killed. At Little Union, police rode into the chapel on horseback and beat the pastor bloody right there in the pulpit.
Over time, changes occurred and tensions eased. But it always has been three steps forward, two steps back. After a modicum of success by the Black reporters, White female reporters at The Post organized and pressed their demands for fair pay, better opportunities and a less misogynistic workplace. Latinos and Asians would later join, and the lot of us became what was called “women and minorities.
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