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...greatest injustices facing our generation. Seven of the 10 leading causes of death in sub-Saharan Africa are treatable illnesses that have been largely curtailed in the developed world. Additionally, many diseases in the developing world currently lack safe, affordable interventions. Two of the greatest challenges to resolving these inequalities??developing new treatments and ways of administering them—are problems which research universities are uniquely suited to address...
...Gates acknowledged that many people are apathetic about existing inequalities??a problem he has faced since he began his philanthropic work...
...crux of Williams and Cosby’s case is that poor blacks should be less concerned with overt and “systemic” racism—obstacles such as structural wealth inequalities??and focus instead on what they can do to improve their own lots. This, they argue, is the path to black self-empowerment...
...world has created, exacerbated and ignored the global plight of black people, it is time for us to draw a similar lesson. During our most terrible tests—Rwanda, Darfur, the AIDS epidemic, mass incarceration, civil wars, impossible national debts, violence in our ghettoes, educational, economic and political inequalities??friends and benefactors have lifted a finger, not to help, but to point the blame back at us. This is the black lesson of our history and Garvey’s legacy for us today. It is time for Africans all over the world to acknowledge their common...
...innate differences to explain gender inequalities can be a dangerous approach—especially when the comments are made by the president of a university that has such a problem with female faculty tenure rates. We want our University president to lead the discussions on ways to overcome gender inequalities??not to offer ways to rationalize them. As the letter from the Standing Committee on Women told Summers, “your efforts to ‘provoke’ your audience did not serve our institution well...
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