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Comics find something to laugh about with Gates
Jul 29, 2009 16:52 EDT
Add beer, and Harvard professor's arrest is a late-night comedy topic. Late-night comics found a few things to laugh about in the racially charged arrest of a Harvard professor ? once beer was added to the equation.
How Our Post-Racial President Uses Race Card As Both Sword And Shield
Jul 28, 2009 19:12 EDT
Oops, President Obama did it again. He thoughtlessly, carelessly and offensively whipped out the race card.
Gates, an intellectual drawn back into the arena
Jul 24, 2009 16:27 EDT
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the intellectual, has tasted the arena before. Decades ago ? long before Harvard, long before his books and documentaries ? Henry Louis Gates Jr. and some friends nearly set off a brawl trying to integrate a West Virginia club.
Obama stokes racial passions, police anger
Jul 24, 2009 09:12 EDT
BOSTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plunged his presidency into a charged racial debate and set off a firestorm with police officers nationwide by siding with a prominent black scholar who accuses police of racism.
Obama stokes racial passions, police anger
Jul 24, 2009 09:12 EDT
BOSTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plunged his presidency into a charged racial debate and set off a firestorm with police officers nationwide by siding with a prominent black scholar who accuses police of racism.
Obama: Police acted "stupidly" arresting black scholar
Jul 22, 2009 22:37 EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday police had acted "stupidly" in arresting a prominent black Harvard University scholar at his own home, weighing in on escalating debate over the treatment of minorities by U.S. law enforcement officers.
Editorial Roundup
Jul 22, 2009 15:56 EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
Editorial Roundup
Jul 22, 2009 15:55 EDT
Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers in the US and Abroad.. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
Charges dropped against black Harvard professor
Jul 22, 2009 06:20 EDT
BOSTON (Reuters) - Authorities in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Tuesday dropped disorderly conduct charges against a preeminent black scholar stemming from an incident that drew fresh attention to police treatment of minorities in the United States.
Charges dropped against Harvard professor: report
Jul 21, 2009 11:49 EDT
BOSTON (Reuters) - Disorderly conduct charges filed against one of the nation's pre-eminent African-American scholars have been dropped, local media reported on Tuesday.
UMass to put papers of W.E.B. Du Bois online
Apr 03, 2009 14:13 EDT
University of Massachusetts to expand access to diaries, letters, papers of W.E.B. Du Bois. The University of Massachusetts in Amherst said Friday it would scan, catalog, digitize and put online papers of civil rights movement pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois.
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