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Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks Science and Politics
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the director of the Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History and the host of Nova scienceNow, now in its fifth season. He also sat on the National Academy of Sciences Committee, the NASA Advisory Council, the Commission on the Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy and the…
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1001 Inventions : Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World
The U.S. leg of “1001 Inventions” — a fun, splashy, fascinating exhibit — just started at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, N.Y., on Dec. 4. Created by the U.K.-based Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation, the exhibit showcases the inventions and discoveries of the Muslim world during a 1,000-year time span starting…
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The Root Interview: The Schomburg's Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The torch of leadership has been passed at one of the world’s leading research libraries for information on people of African descent, and the new torchbearer is a young scholar with a pedigree steeped in black history. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, 38, has been chosen as the next director of the Schomburg Center for Research in…
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The Root Review: A Free Man of Color
New Orleans in the early part of the 19th century was a singular place — and it still is. Before the Louisiana Purchase, the city’s racial and social barriers were permeable in ways they would never be again. John Guare’s latest play, the kaleidoscopic A Free Man of Color, now at the Vivian Beaumont Theater…
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The Root Interview: Terry McMillan on Getting to Happy
The Root caught up with Terry McMillan just as she was to begin the tour for her latest novel, Getting to Happy, the sequel to Waiting to Exhale. The Root: How are you? Where are you?Terry McMillan: New York. I’m going to the Barnes and Noble [in Union Square]. I didn’t get much sleep last…
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Pearl Cleage Talks Prose and Politics
It’s spring in Atlanta, the flowering shrubs are blooming, and writer Pearl Cleage‘s most recent novel, Till You Hear From Me, is newly published. Her latest play, starring Jasmine Guy, is debuting in September. And she has something else to look forward to: tomatoes, which her husband, Zaron W. Burnett Jr., has just planted in…
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