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...search for a new executive director, the Cambridge Police Review and Advisory Board will now be able to investigate complaints filed in response to the July 2009 arrest of Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., professor and director of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies...
...argued that most states have been too slow to close down those that don't. But over time, the results seem to be improving dramatically. A recent study showed that students in New York City's charter schools - who are selected randomly, by lottery, and are 90% African American and Latino - have closed 86% of the gap in test results between the poorest neighborhoods of the city and ritzy suburbs like Scarsdale, which is known for its excellent schools...
...first, let’s revisit some shopping week highlights of the day. We heard that in African and African American Studies 10: "Introduction to African American Studies," Professor Henry L. Gates Jr. played an attention-grabbing rap about literacy. Though it may sound like a strange convergence of themes, Gates used the song to discuss how during the Enlightenment, literacy was viewed as the link to humanity, and Africans who could not write were seen as less than human...
...adults and children over five who are infected go on to develop chronic disease. (The numbers are much higher for younger children and infants who contract the virus.) Hepatitis C is more often a chronic infection, with a minority of patients experiencing acute disease. Both diseases disproportionately affect African Americans and Asian Americans...
Riots in the southern region of Calabria exposed deep conflicts over race and immigration in Italy. A Jan. 7 attack on African residents sparked clashes in the town of Rosarno that left more than 50 people hurt, including migrant workers, native Italians and police. Opposition leader Pier Luigi Bersani blamed the melee on "Mafia, exploitation, xenophobia and racism," while Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Italians had been too tolerant of illegal immigration. Hundreds of immigrants were evacuated and more than 10 suspected mafiosi arrested...