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...activists who were concerned about the growing problem of Black-on-Black violence and what was then becoming known as the Black underclass. At that time an ad hoc coalition of Black churchmen, in collaboration with the Nation of Islam and other grass roots activist began a series of fora to address the issue. These initiatives, reported in both the Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson were, amusingly, never reported in any of the research which evolved into a cottage industry, on what came to be known as the Boston Miracle. Yet there was a direct connection between the Harvard...
...have new challenges that cannot be addressed without leadership from the neighborhoods. Secondly, since there is currently no politically impartial forum sponsored by any state or municipal agency or university that engages the political realities of black youth violence on the ground the larger community must develop independent fora to effectively engage this issue...
...globalization issues more generally. I also visited Mexico where I discussed issues related to globalization and trade with President [Felipe] Calderon and the finance minister and the central bank governor...And then I’ve also been in Europe several times participating in various kinds of international fora...
Ascent Magazine, published twice a year by students at Harvard and MIT, delves into Middle Eastern issues and says it aims “to elevate the level of discourse on Islam in the academic and popular fora.” Another student publication on the Middle East, the Harvard Israel Review, published its last issue in spring 2004, according to its Web site...
...reason for the street action is the sad reality of the Putin regime long denying its opponents any legitimate public fora. The mainstream media are subdued, and "the Parliament is not a place for discussion," as the Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov succinctly put it in 2005. When people are denied the right to discuss their life on the parliament floor or in the media, they're forced into the street - and into strange alliances. The Other Russia, in fact, is an unlikely motley amalgamation: members of the traditional democratic and liberal Yabloko party; new liberal factions, The United Civic Front...