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...freshman at Johns Hopkins, said that she saw how race was a factor in the campaign but that gender was less of an issue.REFLECTIONS OF AN EX-CANDIDATETwo and a half years out, Zisiadis, who at Harvard is active in the juggling club and the Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble, had some insights about the film. He said he wonders if the similarities between high school and national politics are because students are imitating adult politicians or because adults are acting out what they learned in high school.“Are we just mirroring the spirit of reaching...
...Sketches from the Shore” at the Rudenstein Gallery in the W.E.B. Du Bois Center. The collection, his most recent body of work, consists of 13 photographs and a collage taken in Ghana over the past few years. His subject is the complexity of modern African culture, which he expresses through his images, as in one photograph of people in tradition dress talking on cell phones. Harris, 43, was born in New York but spent part of his childhood in Tanzania. He currently splits his time between New York and Ghana. He is inspired by different American and African...
...weeks, Charles Cherry II has tried to get Florida's Republican Party to buy ads promoting Senator John McCain on the seven African American-targeted radio stations and in the two newspapers that make up part of the Cherry family's sprawling Tampa business empire, the largest black-owned media entity in the Sunshine State. The ads would have enabled McCain to make his case to potentially millions of black Floridians, about 13% of whom voted for President Bush in 2004. Instead, Cherry, 52, recalls a Republican official saying, "We're ceding the black vote in Florida to Obama." Last...
...endeavor - community organizing - makes it a tempting target for GOP strategists. In Chicago in 1992, Obama headed the Project Vote campaign - an organization affiliated with ACORN - which registered 150,000 voters on the city's the south side and helped elect Carol Moseley Braun, the country's first female African-American Senator. As an attorney, Obama worked on the team of lawyers that represented ACORN in a 1995 lawsuit in which it accused the state of Illinois of violating federal polling laws, and spoke at two leadership training sessions for ACORN employees a few years later. In February, the Obama...
...combatants can now bulk up on their own dime. "Each group raises its own funds and then negotiates to buy weapons," says Will Hartley of Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center in London. "Gone are the days when governments will send weapons and cash into African states...