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How to Launch the Next Great Era of Black Prosperity
Historically black colleges are the institution best positioned to deliver greater racial equality throughout America. They just need support. Left: Students on campus at Howard University in 1946; Right: A class at Spelman College in 2018 Left: Alfred Eisenstaedt / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty; Right: Melissa Golden / Redux
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Even today, in this time of racial awakening, many white Americans continue to ask the same demeaning question about historically Black colleges and universities that they did a decade ago and in the decade before that: With the end of Jim Crow and the integration of college campuses, does the country still really need HBCUs?
Howard J. Rubenstein, Public Relations Impresario, Dies at 88
He polished the tarnished images of the rich, the famous and the flawed, with clients that included Donald J. Trump, Rupert Murdoch and George M. Steinbrenner.
Howard J. Rubenstein in his office in 2004. When crises struck celebrities, politicians, corporations or cultural institutions, he was a fixer of choice.Credit.Vincent Laforet/The New York Times
Dec. 29, 2020
Howard J. Rubenstein, who softened life’s blows and polished the tarnished images of the rich, the famous and the flawed for more than 65 years in becoming New York’s pre-eminent public relations impresario, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88.