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April 30, 2021  |  By Edward J Boyer  |  In Longer Takes

Parks Support Backs Blacks Into a Corner

By EDWARD  BOYER FEB. 17, 2002 With the cold slap of reality still stinging, black elected officials and some community leaders remain in an uproar over Mayor James K. Hahn’s announcement that he will not support a second term for Police Chief Bernard C. Parks. These are the same leaders who have been in the […]

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    Helllo June Smith, there is a hyperlink in my post to Chris Campion's profile of Fayne in the Guardian. If…

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    I am so glad to hear this. I want to read her book!

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I was hooked on becoming an ink-stained wretch after seeing my first byline when I was in 4th Grade and covered a basketball tournament for our elementary school newspaper in Detroit. Those bylines continued on newspapers in high school, at Wayne State University and at the two dailies in the Motor City. I left daily journalism for nearly six years to work as a correspondent for Time magazine, but returned as a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times…[Read More]

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