Word: racial
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...others to own slaves, you aren't culpable. But the U.S. didn't do a very good job of converting its former slaves to full-fledged citizens. Slavery gave way to Jim Crow, lynchings, poll taxes, redlining and educational and job discrimination. Although illegal now, these tools perpetuated a racial hierarchy that affects every American today, no matter how subtly. Just compare any rates of achievement, poverty, imprisonment by race; blacks are nowhere closing to catching...
What has also been confirmed is that the region's sacred places have been serving civic purposes without regard to anybody's religion. Even religious groups that proselytize by tradition have responded to the disaster by collaborating across once deep religious, racial and socioeconomic divides. "When it comes to serving the needy, we don't proselytize," says the Rev. Travis Scruggs, the minister of home relief and recovery for the First Baptist Church of New Orleans, who is known around town as the "Disaster Pastor." "We love people the way Christ loved them, without turning anyone away. Actions speak louder...
...Block Party,” a discussion of diversity in the context of blocking groups, the Houses and the Harvard campus. The event’s co-director, Teddy L. Styles ’07, also announced a new Foundation initiative to promote its mission of improving relations among racial and ethnic groups at Harvard. The Foundation Associates Program will consist of three to five students from each House who will work with race relations tutors to host events that promote or celebrate diversity. Styles said the discussion event was held after blocking forms were...
...been enough of anything to be the sole reason for why I would enter into a community.” The Crimson granted the student anonymity because revealing her identity would compromise her relationsihps with members of cultural organizations. This student has chosen not to take part in her racial community, but she questions the role cultural organizations have on this campus. “It all comes down to whether these communities are open to people of other ethnicities and I haven’t seen that a lot. It is easy to fall into the trap where...
...self-segregation” endemic to predominantly white colleges. One campus organization that works directly against isolating impulses is the Harvard Foundation. In 1981, then-University President Derek C. Bok and the deans of the College created the Foundation to “improve relations among racial and ethnic groups within the University and to enhance the quality of our common life,” according to the group’s mission statement. The Foundation, which organizes campus staples such as the annual Cultural Rhythms shows, has been led by S. Allen Counter for its entire 25-year history...