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Failing to complete the decennial United States Census is costly—local and state governments can lose thousands of dollars per absentee American, while underrepresented communities risk losing additional resources and representation. Understandably, then, bureaucrats and activists are concerned about the roughly 700,000 African Americans unaccounted for in the 2000 Census. Kim M. Williams wants to help. Williams, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, was appointed late last month to the Census Advisory Committee on the African American Population. “She’s one of the leading scholars on the multiracial movement...
...seem odd in the whitest place on earth"-asked Obama if he would launch another "national conversation about race," as President Clinton did. And Obama said: No. "I'm less interested in a conversation about race in the abstract," he said. "All the self-flagellation, it's not useful. African-Americans get all riled up, and whites get defensive...
...There is little hope of Mugabe and his Zimbabwean African National Union (Patriotic Front) (Zanu-PF) party retaining power by legitimate means. Unemployment is at 80%, inflation an absurd 100,000% and life expectancy has plunged into the mid-30s. After 28 years of one-man and one-party rule, the results of the March 29 general election showed most Zimbabweans were unconvinced by Zanu-PF claims that Zimbabwe's economic misfortunes were not the result of state incompetence and corruption, but rather a Western imperial plot to impoverish, and eventually recolonize, Zimbabwe...
...Michigan and you-know-where. (Democrats! Disenfranchised! In Florida! The blog posts write themselves.) Hillary Clinton's camp has already stepped up the "count every vote" talk. If it's Clinton, the protests will be that, as in 2000--when thousands of black Floridians were struck from voter rolls--African Americans were overruled and the popular-vote leader denied. That there are several competing gauges of legitimacy only makes recriminations more likely...
Some families, though, are simply taking more staycation. Scardina got a family pool pass to her local community center, which she can walk to, and plans to carpool to the beach with friends. She'll also take her kids, ages 5 and 6, to local puppet shows, an African dance festival and live music at a nearby outdoor amphitheater. This summer there may be no better way to save money than to stay home...