Word: institutionalizing
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I've grown accustomed to an undercurrent in public policy debates that blames black women for an array of social and cultural failures. Without making distinctions, that racist sentiment casts us all as lazy and drug-addled welfare queens, thoughtless breeders of criminals, and unwed heathens who are sacking the...
The real reason black Americans don't play baseball is that they don't want to. They are not attracted to the game. Baseball has little hold on the black imagination, even though it existed as an institution in black life for many years. Among blacks, baseball is not passed...
My freshman spring, I failed to attend lecture or section in two classes for 8 weeks. Every night, I would promise myself that I would go the next morning, but when the time came to get out of bed, I simply couldn’t. Inevitably, as I fell further...
“First of all, she is a leader. She is not a follower,” he said. “She took the legacy that Radcliffe College represented and turned it into a very viable, quite dynamic, almost electric institution in a very exciting way.?...
The immediate lesson is not to take a chainsaw to all of Alaska. “Clear-cutting mountains to slow climate change is, of course, nuts,” wrote Ken Caldeira, a scientist at the Carnegie Institution and one of the study’s authors, in a...