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On what Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. called “one of the happiest days of my life,” the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research celebrated the opening of its new...
The violence that started in the French suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois and spread to over 30 towns and cities has led the French government to temporarily impose a curfew and ban public gatherings. After weeks of rioting in the French Arab and African communities, the situation appears to have...
—Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.
That hard line has earned Sarkozy the scorn of the French left as well as that of youths in the neighborhoods where the violence erupted. "I will slit his throat or shoot him with a Kalashnikov--no matter how, I'll kill him," says Osman, 14, to nods of approval...
The spark for last week's chaos came on Oct. 27, with the deaths of two teenagers from the jumble of apartment blocks that make up Clichy-sous-Bois. Bouna Traore, 15, of Malian origin, and Zyed Benna, 17, whose parents are Tunisian, thought they were being chased by police...