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JBHE: African-American Ph.D.s Grossly Underrepresented in the Sciences
Fresh from our “Good News, Bad News” file, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education is reporting that in 2009, 49,562 doctorates were awarded by U.S. universities. There were 2,221 black U.S. citizens or permanent residents in this country who earned a doctorate in 2009. This is an all-time high, which is a reason to…
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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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President Obama Set a Tone, Not an Agenda
President Barack Obama was under pressure to satisfy many different constituencies in his second State of the Union address last night. Some liberals wanted the president to support government-matching 401(k) contributions in order to promote saving; others wanted him to address gay-rights legislation; still others urged a ban on large gun clips, or deep cuts…
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Will Media Create Their Own 'WikiLeaks'?
Al-Jazeera’s “Palestine Papers” Embarrass All Sides “Earlier this month, Al Jazeera launched a new feature on its Web site called the Transparency Unit — the network’s in-house version of WikiLeaks,” Raffi Khatchadourian blogged Monday for the New Yorker magazine. “When the unit first went online, there was not much coverage about it in English, but…
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State of the Union: Obama Reverts to Teaching Again
John Boehner did not cry. Though President Barack Obama twice seemed to attempt to provoke a flood of tears from the notoriously weepy new speaker of the House of Representatives, Boehner remained dry-eyed throughout last night’s State of the Union address. He was not alone in being unmoved by the president’s curiously unmoving remarks. Last…
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'We Do Big Things': State of the Union 2011
Updated at 11:30 p.m. with the transcript provided by the White House press office “as delivered.” The White House has released the transcript of tonight’s State of the Union Address. Take a look now, and check back later this evening for The Root’s Cynthia Gordy’s recap on Blogging the Beltway. REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN…
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Why Obama's Speech Shouldn't Promise Too Much
After his inaugural address; his first State of the Union; his speeches in Philadelphia, Denver, Springfield and Oslo; and the 2004 Democratic convention speech, during which he proclaimed “there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America,” everybody knows that President Barack Obama can give a great speech. If…
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What Story Will National Black History Museum Tell?
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Black History and Culture, which has officially been in the works since 2003, won’t open until 2015, but there is already talk about what sort of angle the museum will take in its approach to the complicated, rich and painful history of blacks in America. A recent New York Times…
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Who Are We Protecting by Censoring 'Huck Finn'?
“So, class, this was written a long time ago, and there are people in it using a word we don’t like to hear. Open up to page ___ and see what word it is. “Now, when you start this book, you might think it’s just about a white kid and a black guy and some…
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Witnessing the Birth of a Nation in Southern Sudan
They have returned to this part of Africa from all over the continent and abroad, traveling via every type of transport or simply on foot. After decades in exile in foreign lands or displaced internally from their own homelands, Southern Sudanese have begun to claim their own future. Their stories are familiar — tales of…