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Article: POPULAR, DIVERSE, ENDANGERED BEVERLY HILLS MINORITY-EDUCATION PROGRAM FIGHTS TO SURVIVE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2000
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Michael Higginbotham has heard it for 25
years now. Whenever the African-American law professor tells people
he graduated from Beverly Hills High School, "they're very
surprised," he said. "I think they're shocked to find there was any
kind of racial dynamic there."
Jason Kravitz is just now getting used to it. Whenever the white
17-year-old and his fellow Beverly Hills High athletes travel to a
game in another school district, "we always hear the other kids
saying we're a bunch of rich, white pretty boys, but that only makes
us want to fight the stereotype."
That stereotype, reinforced by such movies as "Clueless" or the
television show "Beverly Hills, 90210," ...