Word: honors
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Black economist Glenn C. Loury makes a powerful case for the rediscovery of black racial honor. He believes progress toward racial equality depends on acknowledging and rectifying the dysfunctional behaviors in the black community. This is usually taken to mean the underclass must clean up its act before it can move into the mainstream. But there are dysfunctional behaviors outside the ghetto that could also stand re-examination: the white notion that the country has already done enough to secure racial equity, and black middle-class complicity in the deterioration of inner-city schools. In both cases, honor depends...
...plenty of charity work, and refuses to play golf at country clubs that don't have black members (not a huge sacrifice, but a notable one). Last year the group was drawn into controversy when it was nominated for the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina's highest civilian honor. Critics were quick to attack the nomination, charging that the band members weren't proper role models. After all, they argued, Rucker's ex-girlfriend had had a daughter by him out of wedlock (the baby is now a year old). Others were angry over the band's Confederate-flag...
...This conference signals a new age--one which allows the magic and history of Paris, as well as the academic power of Harvard and the Sorbonne, to come together to honor and celebrate African-American music," he said...
...Harvard Law School renamed a wing of one of its buildings in honor of the late Langdell Professor of Law Phillip E. Areeda '51, who was considered the nation's foremost expert on antitrust...
Areeda was posthumously awarded the Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence by the Law School class of 1996, an honor given to one professor by each graduating class...