Yesterday's
New York Times included a fascinating
op-ed piece by historian
Grace Elizabeth Hale (University of Virginia). Her starting point is the NAACP's
response to New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s restrictions on the size of sugary sodas. "This is more than a story of mutual back-scratching," Hale writes. "It is the
latest episode in the long and often fractious history of soft drinks,
prohibition laws and race." Read on
here.
