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Will “My Brother’s Keeper” Be Obama’s Lasting Legacy?
February 27, 2014
During January’s State of the Union address, President Obama included one sentence midway through his remarks that didn’t receive much…
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Host Of The Internet’s Most Lively Dinner Party, Ta-Nehisi Coates Commands The Room
February 26, 2014
At 38, Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior correspondent for The Atlantic’s online property, has become one of the nation’s foremost writers on…
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“Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations” Invites Readers To Do A Deeper Dive Into African-American History
February 21, 2014
Retha Powers, the editor of the magnificent and addictive new “Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations,” has a handful of all-time favorite…
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VIDEO: David Livingstone Smith On The Delusion Of Race
February 17, 2014
Philosophy Professor David Livingstone Smith kicked off the University of New England’s 2014 diversity lecture series with a talk on…
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Tim Wise’s Attitudes On Race Resonate With University Of Akron Crowd
February 13, 2014
Anti-racism activist Tim Wise joked that he was on his third visit to the University of Akron campus in the…
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Rita Dove Lauded In New Documentary On Her Formative Years
February 11, 2014
Filmmaker Eduardo Montes-Bradley knew he wanted to make a film on Rita Dove. So the director of documentaries on former NAACP…
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Debating The Best Book Lists: Does Amazon’s “100 Books To Read In A Lifetime” Get It Right?
February 7, 2014
Wither the best book list? Inherently inane and crazy-making, these are also undeniably good conversation starters. Amazon has posted the…
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Black Male Achievement Takes Center Stage In New Documentary, “American Promise”
When 13-year-old Idris Brewster, subject of the thought-provoking documentary “American Promise,” is invited to a classmate’s bat mitzvah, he says…
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The Race Card Project Digs For The Truth About Race In America
February 5, 2014
Looking out over the multiracial crowd of more than 600 assembled at the University of Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall, journalist…
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Michelle Alexander On The Perils Of Mass Incarceration In The U.S.
January 31, 2014
In her influential best-seller, “The New Jim Crow,” law professor Michelle Alexander dissects the devastating racial consequences of “locking up…
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Vintage Black Glamour Blog Shows Flashier Side Of African-American History
January 30, 2014
Ask Nichelle Gainer why she decided to create Vintage Black Glamour, and her answer is simple: She saw a need….
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Wil Haygood Tells CWRU The Story Behind “The Butler” During Martin Luther King Convocation
January 28, 2014
Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood stood in the pulpit at the Amasa Stone Chapel on the Case Western Reserve University…