<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Courtland Milloy</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/columns/milloycourtland?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><description>Courtland Milloy</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Little Reasons To Stop for  School Buses]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3067-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3067-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Enjoying a drive along an open stretch of road near my home in Fort Washington yesterday, I saw an oncoming school bus with warning lights flashing and those mechanical stop signs emerging from the sides.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Lesson From a Winner Of a Teacher]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59651-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59651-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The National Teachers Hall of Fame induction ceremony had been kept secret. John F. Mahoney, a math and robotics teacher at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in the District, was supposed to be surprised. Perhaps, as is typical on such occasions, he'd gush with gratitude upon receiving the award and maybe even cite it as evidence of the city's commitment to education.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Plays Hardball With Its Children]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28470-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28470-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Mason Clark was rounding up neighborhood kids who wanted to play baseball this spring when he got the news from the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation: If you want to play at night on a city-owned field, you must pay a fee to have the lights turned on.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billions for Toys, But Not Enough For Tribute]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22072-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22072-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In 1996, Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing construction of a memorial on the Mall in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. within seven years. The four-acre site is on the Tidal Basin, adjacent to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, in what is known as the "monumental core" of the Mall. No person of color has ever been honored there.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fighter Tackles His Toughest Foe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11398-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11398-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Damu Smith, a community organizer and social activist, has waged some tough fights over the years  --  against apartheid in South Africa and against police brutality here at home; for an end to gun violence in the Washington area; and for a freeze on nuclear weapons throughout the world.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[End-of-Life Choices Should  Be Our Own]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58544-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58544-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Just as I have become reasonably comfortable with this thing called life, I find myself preparing to die. Not because of old age  --  I'm a fiftysomething baby boomer  --  and not because of illness, although life itself is certainly a terminal condition.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Scholarship, Self-Discipline Surpasses Race]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50460-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50460-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Irecently talked with a black couple from Montgomery County who are the parents of three high-achieving children: a ninth-grader who is in a public high school magnet program; a seventh-grader who was accepted into a middle school magnet program but decided to stay at the school she was attending; and a fifth-grader who was accepted into a magnet program and is now deciding which school he'd like to attend.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Complexities  Of a Pr. George's Crime Incubator]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38653-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38653-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The Glenarden Apartments I and II are on a list of 22 housing complexes that Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) has targeted  as crime "hot spots." At a news conference Monday, he said owners of the  complexes have allowed their properties to become "breeding grounds for criminal activity," and he vowed to put them out of business if the problems persist.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching Girls The Power Of Learning]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18760-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18760-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  At the Washington Middle School for Girls, the 38 students start each day with a pledge to do their best. Standing at attention in blue skirts and white shirts, some topped with vests of brightly colored kente cloth, the girls invoke "the spirit of courageous women" as they recite and, in doing so, convey a sincere reverence for learning.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercury Scare Could Have Deeper Meaning]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10607-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10607-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In the wake of the mercury spill at Cardozo Senior High in Northwest last week, city and federal officials are  wondering how vandals gained access to the hazardous substance and what can be done to prevent  it from happening again.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selling Sneakers By Violating Young Minds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64494-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64494-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  More than two dozen young men had been waiting for nearly an hour when the Downtown Locker Room shoe store in Temple Hills opened at 10 a.m. Sunday.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Only Kids Were More Like Fluffy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45250-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45250-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   I thought everybody understood that cats come before kids. But the parents at Eaton Elementary in the District apparently didn't hear the news. They are actually upset that the school cafeteria was turned into a cat hospital for a couple of days.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder Why You Can't Feel the Trust?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38624-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38624-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   I came home the other day to find my wife reading "On the Down Low," that book about "straight" black men who have wives or girlfriends -- and also have sex with other men. "Baby, why are you reading that?" I asked.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or Later, This Young Man Is Going Places]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27732-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27732-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  For the past two summers, 11-year-old John V. Boyd has run his own plant business. He grows spider, purple passion and aloe plants, then sets up a table outside his home in Southeast Washington and sells them to passersby. He also sells cold bottled water on the side.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard to Believe That Va. Justice Is Colorblind]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9554-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9554-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   At a news conference Monday, Prince William Commonwealth's Attorney Paul B. Ebert announced the indictment of Carlos Diangilo Williams, a black, 26-year-old college-educated man, in the murder of his pregnant former girlfriend, Cheri Washington, a black 17-year-old high school student.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenge Presidential Assumptions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1759-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1759-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>  "African American males die sooner than other males do, which means the system is inherently unfair to a certain group of people. And that needs to be fixed." </em>]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach the Savvy Along With The Skills]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55803-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55803-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This fall, if all goes as planned, there will be a construction academy at Cardozo Senior High School in Northwest Washington. Students will be offered opportunities to learn carpentry, brick masonry, plumbing, electrical work and a variety of other building-related skills.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out From Under The Thumb  Of White Bias]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36395-2005Jan25.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36395-2005Jan25.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I took the race bias test that Shankar Vedantam wrote about in the Washington Post Magazine on Sunday. It's called the Race Implicit Association Test, and it measures "the thumbprint of culture on our minds," says Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Hunger For More Than Rhetoric]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29671-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29671-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A black skullcap rested lightly  on the boy's braided hair. He also wore an oversize black jacket, which appeared as if it would swallow him up before he got to devour the hot dog on his plate at Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I Hear Bush, Then I Don't Believe Him]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19041-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19041-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/milloycourtland</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  I'd like to listen to President Bush's inaugural address tomorrow, but my hearing seems to have deteriorated so much over the past four years that I probably wouldn't understand a word he says.]]></description><author> Courtland Milloy</author></item></channel></rss>
