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Will Cash-Strapped HBCUs Survive?
(The Root) — When Walter Kimbrough opted last July to helm 143-year-old Dillard University, his choice stumped friends and colleagues who knew some of what Dillard was up against. Compounding the costs of running the New Orleans campus is a $160 million federal loan for post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction, a repayment that Kimbrough calculates could consume…
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Romney's PBS Cuts: Beyond Big Bird
(The Root) — One of the most memorable lines from last week’s presidential debate wasn’t about universal health care or even big government — it was about Big Bird. When Republican candidate Mitt Romney summarily attacked PBS, the political punch lines, of course, practically wrote themselves — from plays on Wall Street and Sesame Street…
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Ole Miss Integrator: Nothing to Celebrate
Last week, 50 years after James Meredith’s unwelcome enrollment as the University of Mississippi’s first black student (thousands of soldiers were deployed to protect him, leading to a riot that killed two and injured many more), the school commemorated the groundbreaking moment in its history. But Meredith, who ultimately graduated in 1963 with a degree…
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Mervyn Dymally Dies at 86
Mervyn Dymally, the history-making California assemblyman, senator and lieutenant governor who also served in Congress for more than a decade, has died at age 86, the Associated Press reports. Dymally was the state’s first foreign-born black assemblyman in 1962, its first black state senator in 1966 and the first and only black lieutenant governor in…
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The 'Stereotype Threat' in Education
In a piece for the New York Times, Annie Murray Paul decodes the idea — dubbed the “stereotype threat” — that when minorities are reminded of their ethnicity before an academic evaluation, like a test or exercise, they tend to be less successful. Mr. Aronson, an associate professor at New York University, has been a…
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Are You the Next Reality-Show Tech Star?
(The Root) — I usually try very diligently to stay away from reality television. I don’t always succeed, and there are some reality shows out there that are actually pretty good, but for the most part I like to stick with more traditional TV programming. But if this newest television project gets off the ground,…
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Wole Soyinka: Religion Doesn't Justify Mayhem
The following is the text of an address titled “Religion Against Humanity,” given by Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka, a member of UNESCO’s International High Panel, at the 2012 Conference on the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. (Special to The Root) — To…
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A Personal Reality Check on the 47 Percent
At Politico, political commentator Jamal Simmons says that we need a president who understands families like his, who had to work hard to keep things together. Surely, among the 47 percent of Americans that Romney lumped into the victim or dependent category in his secretly taped remarks are parents of kids like me. There were…
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Univision Forums With Obama, Romney Make News
Obama Concedes Failure to Reform Immigration Univision’s televised forums this week with President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney were ratings and journalistic hits, as Univision moderators Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos posed questions they maintained would not be asked in the mainstream debates scheduled to start Oct. 3 in Denver. Ramos said as…
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Watch This: I'm Dreaming of a White President
Wait, wait. Cool down. We know everyone is up in arms about real-life unbelievable political statements this week, but this one is just satire (of course, that’s not to say it isn’t echoed in certain threads of actual American opinion). From Slate: Today, Randy Newman weighs in on the racial subtext of our presidential politics,…