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Revealing Roots: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Sandy Harris chose to fight for the freedom of other blacks. And this sense of service became a leitmotif in Lawrence-Lightfoot’s family. People who could have passed didn’t pass. People who could have stayed in the North instead headed South to work in impoverished communities. It’s a structuring principle of Lawrence-Lightfoot’s ancestry. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is…
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Black Teacher Calls Student 'White Boy'
A Florida teacher was suspended without pay for one day last month after making inappropriate racial comments to his second-graders, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. Sixty-year-old Billy C. Miles, who is black, reportedly told the class he didn’t want the “black people” misbehaving in public and said to the only white child in the class:…
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The Modest Goals of Black College Football
Another college football season started Sept. 1, with the bulk of attention heaped on the usual suspects, powerhouse programs such as Oklahoma, Alabama and Louisiana State. Such schools — members of lucrative Bowl Championship Series conferences — enjoy regular appearances on national TV, play in stadiums that seat 80,000 to 100,000 fans and often appear…
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Little Common Ground at Panel on 'The Help'
When I was growing up in Baltimore in the 1960s, when my oldest brother was in law school, my mother occasionally performed day work — that is, she would hire herself out for the day to clean a house from top to bottom. She was a stay-at-home mom with a high school degree and some…
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MLK Parade Bombing Suspect Pleads Guilty
Kevin William Harpham, a man with ties to white-supremacist groups, pleaded guilty today to placing an improvised explosive device alongside the planned Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity March on Jan. 17, 2011, in Spokane, Wash. Federal officials say this development “highlights the threat posed by hate-motivated violence”: From KEPR-TV: On March 9, 2011, Harpham…
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Labors of Love for Fans of Elmer Smith
Labor Day brought unexpected news for friends and colleagues who found their names added to a new Facebook page, “Friends of Elmer Smith“: The longtime editorial writer and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News is retiring. “Yo, Elmer!! Sorry to hear that the coolest cat, and one of the smartest voices at the DN, is…
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Daily Job Lead: Senior Analyst Programmer
The Mayo Clinic’s Information Technology division in Rochester, Minn., is currently seeking a senior analyst programmer to help create and fine-tune applications and information systems for the company’s internal affairs as well as for the convenience of patients. The ideal candidate has strong technical skills and around three years of professional technical experience. Candidates should…
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High-Level Departures at Columbia Cast Doubt on Diversity
For a short while, it seemed that Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, an ardent defender of affirmative action and diversity, had backed his beliefs with action. He could boast of having African Americans in two key positions: Claude Steele was provost and Michelle Moody-Adams was undergraduate dean. Then Steele resigned in June to take a…
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High-Profile Resignations Shake Up Columbia University
Alan Schwarz of the New York Times is reporting that several Columbia University professors said this week that the recent resignations of two high-ranking black administrators have shaken their confidence in the institution’s president, Lee C. Bollinger, and reignited concerns among their colleagues about other aspects of his leadership. Fredrick C. Harris, a professor of…
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AT&T Nation’s Football Classic Events Calendar
It’s been nearly 15 years since the Howard University Bison and the Morehouse College Maroon Tigers battled it out on the field. This month, the two teams will head to the nation’s capital to renew their historical football rivalry that dates back to 1923. Bison and Maroon Tigers fans alike will descend on Washington for…