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...Monday and accepted on Wednesday. Scalise also said Amaker has signed a five-year contract. “Tommy will be fantastic for Harvard, and Harvard will be fantastic for Tommy,” Scalise quoted from Duke coach and Amaker mentor Mike Krzyzewski. Amaker is currently the only African-American head coach among Harvard’s 32 head coaches. The lack of minorities had drawn criticism from the Boston Globe and CBS SportsLine.com, among others, but both Scalise and Amaker denied that race played a role in the hiring decision. “Once we?...
...Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, will stand alongside Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 tomorrow at an event that will honor each man’s service to the state’s community of African-American males. Counter, an associate professor of neurology and neuroscience, will receive the recognition from the Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts largely for his work within the greater Boston community, in particular the science programs he has conducted to encourage more young black boys and girls to go into science...
MICHAEL THELWELL, professor of African-American studies at the University of Massachusetts, on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe; the university is considering a request to revoke an honorary degree awarded to Mugabe...
...line was as damning as anything for what it suggested about Imus' thought process: a 66-year-old white male country-music fan rummaging in his subconscious for something to suggest that some young black women looked scary, and coming up with a reference to African-American hair and a random piece of rap slang. (Maybe because older, male media honchos are more conscious of - and thus fixated on - race than gender, much of the coverage of Imus ignored the sexual part of the slur on a show with a locker-room vibe and a mostly male guest list...
...card. Perhaps he felt confident because he had been legitimized by his high-profile guests. Imus could have made a remark just as bad years ago and suffered few if any consequences. Scratch that: Imus did make remarks as bad or worse for years. Speaking about Gwen Ifill, the African-American PBS anchor who was then White House correspondent for the New York Times, he said, "Isn't the Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House." He called a Washington Post writer a "boner-nosed, beanie-wearing Jewboy" and Arabs "towelheads...