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"He's often not coherent," says Pardo. "He'll sit in the corner, mumbling, talking and arguing with himself. He'll never admit that there's anything wrong with him, but I once saw him argue with himself over a piece of chicken, saying things like, 'I'm going to eat that piece of chicken. . . No, don't eat that piece of chicken . . . Come on and eat that piece of chicken.' He just goes into these zones where he doesn't know what he's doing, then he pops out of it."

BOSTON — With court-ordered desegregation of public schools unfolding violently across this city in the mid-1970s, Boston Latin, then about 90 percent white, began admitting more minority students, remaining a place of relative calm in a city engulfed in protest.

But in the last two weeks, the school, a beacon of high achievement founded by Puritans in 1635, has emerged at the center of a new discussion of racial tensions. Two black students, employing YouTube videos and a hashtag, started a campaign to expose what they see as a hostile school climate — one in which, they said, racial insensitivity is too common and hate speech is not effectively punished.

The students, Meggie Noel, 17, and Kylie Webster-Cazeau, 18, complained of discriminatory comments — “things like, ‘Oh, you’ll get into college because you’re black,’ ” Ms. Noel said. They also said their fellow students had used racial slurs and told black students to “go back to Africa” during online debates, with few repercussions.

“It just felt like what we go through every day was completely disregarded,” Ms. Noel said. “What is the oldest public school in the nation going to do, moving forward, to address these issues?”
The accusations, which multiplied as students and alumni used social media to detail their experiences, swiftly drew the attention of city officials. Mayor Martin J. Walsh said he had urged school administrators to look into the complaints.
“I’ve asked them to look at the district as a whole in making sure that we have a policy throughout the district that addressed the issues of race and any issue of racism,” Mr. Walsh said in an interview. “I’m assuming if there’s an issue in Latin School, it’s probably in other schools.”

The students’ campaign, which uses the hashtag #BlackatBLS, emerged amid wider tensions over the treatment of black Americans and after several turbulent months when long-simmering racial issues in higher education, including at the University of Missouri, came to the fore.
Besides complaints of blatant discrimination and the use of offensive and menacing language and actions, students at many campuses lamented persistent insensitivity, which they said was demeaning and wearing.

Opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) legislator, Dr. Clive Jagan is ill and is overseas, according to Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo.
“Dr. Jagan is abroad. He is seeking medical attention,”  Jagdeo told a news conference.
Jagdeo did not want to say whether his party would seek a replacement for Jagan, a nephew of late PPP co-founder, Dr. Cheddi Jagan.
Records show that of the 23 sittings so far after the May 11, 2015 general elections, Jagan has been absent from six sittings, two of which- 18^th and 19^th– he did not give notice to the National Assembly.
However, from sittings 20 to 23 he has been granted leave to be away.
Sources indicate that Jagan should return to Guyana by next month.
Dr. Jagan and his family own the Jagan Dental Centre at the corner of Lamaha and Light Streets, Alberttown.

Seven years into his presidency, Barack Obama will make his first trip to an American mosque on Wednesday, offering a symbolic rebuttal of harsh Republican election rhetoric against Muslims.

Obama, whose grandfather converted to Islam, will make the short helicopter ride to the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque, where he will meet community leaders and deliver remarks.

He has visited mosques from Malaysia, to Indonesia and Egypt as president, but has yet to visit one America's 2,000-plus places of Islamic worship.

In 2009, a freshly elected Obama traveled to the Egyptian capital to call for a "new beginning" with the Muslim world.