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September 30, 2011
Most African Americans hail from just 46 ethnic groups, research shows.
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by Adam Serwer onAugust 26, 2011
American Prospect blogger Adam Serwer discusses a recent court ruling that calls for a modification of standards for eyewitness evidence.
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by Nsenga Burton onAugust 24, 2010
DNA tests strongly suggest that Hitler was related to the very groups he despised.
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July 22, 2009
Last week, the often controversial and always conservative William Saletan published a piece about the link between race and cancer outcomes. But do genetic differences between races just a slippery slope toward outright racism?
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June 24, 2009
Last fall, James Watson, the father of DNA, spoke the unspeakable, saying that blacks are intellectually inferior. In a conversation with The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr., Watson clarified his views about race and genetics.
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by Maya Angelou onJanuary 8, 2009
Turns out she wasn't just steel and resolve.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onJanuary 4, 2009
Last fall, James Watson, the father of DNA, spoke the unspeakable, saying that blacks are intellectually inferior. In a conversation with The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr., Watson clarified his views about race and genetics. Read what he says now — and why Gates regards him as "a racialist."
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onJanuary 4, 2009
A conversation between The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nobel laureate and DNA pioneer James Watson about race and genetics, Jewish intelligence, blacks and basketball and Watson's African roots.
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