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This legal scholar says that these policies are still needed to level the playing field.
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The TV talking head realizes that blacks have been erased from American history. Welcome to our world.
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In tracing the arc of black history and politics, it is easy to draw the link between Dr. King and Barack Obama. But the black power movement deserves equal credit for reshaping the face of American politics.
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Black History Month was created to carve out a separate space for recognizing African Americans. But in the Obama era, when it is harder to throw up walls between black history and American history, what’s the rationale for separating them now?
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