Word: african-american
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...heating up on the national stage, issues of race were significantly absent from the discourse among the College’s undergraduate population. Notably, there was only one black student in the Class of 1958, according to the book “Blacks of Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experiences At Harvard and Radcliffe...
...Blacks coming out of the '60s were no longer ashamed of being black people, nor did they have to apologize for being Christian. Because many persons in the African-American community were teasing us, Christians, of being a white man's religion," Wright told PBS' Bill Moyers earlier this year...
...heat of the campaign, Wright became too much of a liability for the man hoping to become the country's first African-American President. Wright's remarks declaring "God damn America!" and calling 9/11 a case of "America's chickens ... coming home to roost" were roundly denounced. The YouTube-ed clips are partly what prompted Obama to deliver his much-praised March speech on race in America. Following that Philadelphia speech, Obama never again attended Trinity, and many of its members hoped the scrutiny would...
...Mullen of Lexington, Texas, who filed suit in April to adopt two black brothers, ages 2 and 6, whom they have raised since infancy. Though Texas law bars race from being the determining factor in adoption, the Mullens charge that caseworkers delayed the adoption in order to seek an African-American home. Their case is bolstered by a separate class action against the state of Texas, filed jointly by lawyers at the conservative Institute for Justice in Washington and three liberal Harvard law professors--Elizabeth Bartholet, Randall Kennedy and Laurence Tribe--that aims to have race-matching practices declared unconstitutional...
Harvard's Kennedy notes that there is no consensus among African-American parents on how to raise a child. "I'm sure there's a difference between the way Jesse Jackson raises his kids, Louis Farrakhan raises his kids and my parents raised me," he says. Ruth-Arlene Howe, a law professor at Boston College, counters that efforts to ensure race-blind adoptions are "a major, major assault on black families...