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...police are struggling to answer 911 calls, they have even less time to patrol neighborhoods, so they can't build the trust essential to preventing crime. Tensions between the city's African-American community and police are particularly high--40% of the population is black and 47% is white, but there are three times as many white cops on the force. As Alderman Ashanti Hamilton explains, "If the only time people in black neighborhoods see a police officer there it is to arrest somebody, then, of course, they're going to be nervous." Chief Hegerty says repairing this relationship...
Four blacks will chair committees in the new Congress, Massachusetts has its first African-American Governor, and Obama is a possible '08 candidate. Is this a new era for African Americans in politics? There have been gradual increases in opportunity. Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell are examples as to the progress that has been made politically. But in terms of economic advancements, it has been far slower than the political advancements. It's hard...
Brandon M. Terry ’05 was a government and African and African American studies concentrator in Lowell House. He was the Michael von Clemm Fellow at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford, and is now a Ph.D. candidate in political science and African-American studies at Yale University...
Olupona, who assumed his post earlier this month, joined Harvard this July as a professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and at the Divinity School. Previously, Olupona was a professor and the director of African-American studies at the University of California at Davis...
...addition, the number of Mexican-Americans seeking admission increased by 25 percent, while the number of Hispanic-Americans jumped by 13 percent. The number of African-American applicants increased by 6.4 percent, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons...