Jonathan Tilove
Jonathan Tilove is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Jonathan Tilove
NEWS FEATURE: Ivy League schools: short on religious diversity
By Jonathan Tilove — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CAMBRIDGE, Mass. _ If the Ivy League had a mantra, it would be diversity. For 20 years it has sustained rhetorical and legal efforts to increase the representation of blacks and Hispanics at America’s most prestigious institutions of higher education. But hidden in plain sight in Harvard Yard, and at […]
NEWS STORY: `Million Youth’ rallies march to different drummers
By Jonathan Tilove — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Dennis Rogers and Malik Zulu Shabazz were both born in 1966. Malcolm X was already dead a year, and by their second birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. Today, at 31, Rogers and Shabazz are both accomplished black leaders operating on a national scale out of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Black funeral Homes fear corporate takeover aided by church
By Jonathan Tilove — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service CHICAGO _ Life is good at Leak and Sons Funeral Chapel, burying black Chicagoans on the South Side since 1933, and burying 10 more on a recent bitterly cold Saturday. By Sunday morning, the “slumber rooms” are replenished with new customers so nicely prepared they look too well to have […]
NEWS FEATURE: Rep. Tony Hall:“We never said we’re sorry.”
By Jonathan Tilove — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service DAYTON, Ohio _ God works in mysterious ways. No sooner had President Clinton launched his yearlong initiative on race, than the nation was plunged headlong, thanks to Tony Hall, into a debate about whether it was time to apologize for slavery. Tony who? Tony Hall, a mild-mannered, middle-aged, moderately liberal, […]
COMMENTARY: After bombs and carnage, a lover’s lament
By Jonathan Tilove — March 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Adam Tilove grew up in suburban Philadelphia and graduated from Emory University in Atlanta in December 1994. He now lives in the Israeli town of Herzliyah, near Tel Aviv.) HERZLIYAH, Israel (RNS)-My flight to Israel left Newark International Airport on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. I liked to say that I […]
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