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...Dowden is director of the Royal African Society...
...data, without knowing the real picture, we won’t know where we’re going to go,” she said. Though recognizing a need to address the achievement gap during his presentation, Fowler-Finn lauded the graduation rate data—which shows that African-American students for the first time graduated at a higher rate than white students—as evidence of progress in this area. Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons proposed a school committee meeting on data and how to use it for April 9. “Given that all three...
...Darfur and in Chad have spilled over their respective borders, exacerbating the turmoil. “The crises are now so entangled that, if you want a solution in one, you have to have a solution in the other,” said de Waal, who had advised the African Union mediation team for the Darfur conflict and has written several books about the crisis. Henghuber also noted that the conflict has been complicated by violence in the Central African Republic (CAR), which neighbors Chad and Darfur to the south. “There are connections, as what?...
...Harvard students worked on the Greater Gospel Temple Church—a part of the African-American evangelical denomination Church of God and Christ—which arsonists destroyed in Nov. 1995. Though there was evidence of burglary, McCarthy said the case remains inconclusive...
...drawbacks. Rendell has a penchant for speaking his mind in ways that make for good headlines but aren't always on message. In February, for instance, he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board that some whites in the state "are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate." As evidence, he offered his own 2006 reelection over challenger and former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Lynn Swann: "Had Lynn Swann been the identical candidate that he was-well-spoken, charismatic, good-looking-but white instead of black, instead of winning by 22 points, I would have...