“A year ago Thanksgiving Day, Gerald Boyd [Class of 1981] died, and New York magazine marks the occasion by backing up the hearse to his grave, digging him up and burying him again.” Newsday’s Les Payne comments on the Nov. 12 article “How Race Is Lived in America” on Boyd’s rise and fall at the New York Times.

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