Tag: Blacks

  • Afrikaner Memorial gets new owners

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Wednesday, April 13, 1994 PRETORIA—The prospect of black majority rule has resulted in the privatization of this country’s most famous monument. In a move akin to turning the Statute of Liberty over to the Manhattan Institute, the departing white minority government has transferred…

  • Maybe We Can't

    The black case for Obama-skepticism by Cinque Henderson, The New Republic, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Ninety percent of black Democrats support Barack Obama. So that might leave an observer wondering: What the hell is up with that other 10 percent? Are they stupid? Do they hate their own race? Do they not understand the historical…

  • Five Points Had Good Points By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

    THE FIVE POINTS ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT In the early 1990s, a group of archaeologists began an excavation in Five Points. Their research revealed that there was much more to Five Points than the filthy, poor, and crime-infested area that early visitors had described. On February 22, 1998, the Daily News published an article by Michael O.…