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Malcolm X in Memory and Scholarship
The man the world knew as Malcolm X would have been 84 today./>I wrote about the legacy of Brother Malcolm here and here in 2005. Those with an interest in contemporary historical research on Min....
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A federal report on the swine flu epidemic
... of 1976. From the National Academies websiteThis feed contains copyrighted material from Professor Kim's News Notes. If you are not reading this by e-mail subscription or in your feed reader, the...
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Lorraine Hansberry talks about "Raisin in the Son"
The late great playwright would have been 79 yesterday. She died of breast cancer in 1965.Here is a link to a brief audio clipIt's followed by a bonus -- Ralph Ellison talking about how he came to...
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Live blog discussion of Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court
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Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court
Embedded video from CNN VideoBy the way, Sergio Sotolongo is also my friend, and his story is just as inspiring as Sonia's in its own way.Sonia was a role model for me at Princeton. The woman I watched...
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Maddow on Sotomayor's "reversal rate"
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New Yorker cover drawn on an iPhone
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On Sonia Sotomayor and the Process of Inclusion
I have thought long and hard about writing this post about Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the racial debate touched off by what I think is a misreading of her 2001 speech, "A Latina Judge's Voice."By...
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Anita Hill Speaks Out on Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor
ESSENCE.COM: What do you think of Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court nominee?ANITA HILL: I think it's an excellent choice, just on the face of the selection. Here's a person who has years of experience...
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As Obama Seeks New Accord With Muslims, Surveys Reveal Suspicions and...
Pres. Barack Obama's speech in Cairo today emphasized common values held between Muslims across the world and the United States, but results of two recent surveys reveal that deep suspicions persist....
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Latest AOL Hot Seat
Note: I didn't write the question, which I think is absurd. It's the kind of question that elicits responses that only inflame, which is the opposite of what I tried to do. The comments, I think, bear...
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Try this "Word Shooter" out and let me know what you think
I was looking for a fun way to teach students about commonly mispelled words, so I modified a space shooter game to create this "word shooter." To play, click the green flag to start. The goal is to...
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In the wake of the recent killings at the Holocaust Museum and elsewhere
We need the discourse of transformation to help us find a way past the horrors of hate and recrimination spawned by the terrorist opinions of the last two weeks. RIP Steven Tyrone Johns, Pvt. William...
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Betty LaVette: Love Reign Over Me
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The Clashing of Black Intellectuals, Nothing New Here
Debates have been circling lately regarding black leadership and public intellectualism. Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell recently wrote a piece for CNN that slams Tavis Smiley's inadequate...
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Ja-Tun singing Killing Me Softly at the Trenton Makes Music Festival
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Former President Clinton's latest meeting with bloggers
Former President Bill Clinton says he likes blogs and bloggers.That's why he had his staff invite 15 of us to his Harlem, New York office Monday for an hour-long chat about the work of the Clinton...
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Join me for a live-chat with Helen Epstein about the art of narrative writing
The feedback from the BlogHer '09 conference was loud and clear on at least one point: there's a lot of interest in the craft of writing. When it comes to having conversations about non-fiction...
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The Ja-Tun Project: Ms. Swaggerific
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Petals - The Ja-Tun Project
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