“You cannot have a meritocracy if you have a racial spoils system.”

— Howell Raines

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About Howell Raines

Journalist • American

Howell Raines is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, best known for his tenure as executive editor of The New York Times. He led the paper's acclaimed coverage of the September 11th attacks, which...

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