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AG Healey: Republicans Should Give Back Donations from Steve Wynn

Matthew McDonald

The Las Vegas casino mogul, who is building a casino in Everett, Massachusetts, paid $7.5 million to settle a claim by a manicurist that he pressured her to have sex against her will in 2005, according to The Wall Street Journal. Steve Wynn denies the charges against him from several employees, but he resigned as the finance chairman of the Republican National Committee; Maura Healey, the Massachusetts Attorney General and a Democrat, says Republicans who got campaign donations from Wynn should give them back.

Professor’s Approach To Racism:  Call Yourself Disabled
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Professor’s Approach To Racism:  Call Yourself Disabled

Kevin Thomas

I grew up in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, as did my mother in the 1920s and '30s. To her family's chagrin, my mother married a Northerner and, worse, a Catholic. My father had his faults, but he was rock-solid in one way – his abhorrence of Southern bigotry.

At extended family gatherings, in the 1960s, I was shocked to hear cousins and uncles regularly toss out the N-word – a use of language never allowed in our house.

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