Connie Rice: Power Concedes Nothing
Connie is Condi's cousin.
http://www.kasu.org/post/connie-rice-conscience-city
Connie Rice: Conscience Of The
City
By NPR PEOPLE: KAREN GRIGSBY BATES
For years, civil rights attorney Constance
Rice says, she would wake up every
morning trying to figure out new ways to
sue the Los Angeles Police Department into
policing minority communities more fairly.
In her memoir, Power Concedes Nothing,
Rice details how she went from the LAPD's
antagonist to reformer, convincing police
that they needed to court the backing and
support of the city's African-American and
Latino populations.
Relations between the attorney and the
police force have warmed over the years:
The LAPD even hosted Rice's book release
party.
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Rice had been groomed for this work since
childhood. Her cousin, former Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice, remembers the
ethic both of them were raised with: "We
were just expected to succeed, and
expected to work hard, and I remember my
parents had a saying, 'You had to be twice
as good' — and it was just said as a matter
of fact, not debate. "
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