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...movie. As a consequence, you’ve probably noticed that the movie title is blazoned in every shop, on each cup and coaster, and some cases even accompanied by special edition Scrabble sets. Recent cinema set in Los Angeles has primarily focused on gangsta rap, crunk dancing, or racial tension. “Akeelah and the Bee” presents scholarly achievement as a viable alternative to the unfortunate stereotypes about black families.However, peripheral characters, such as Akeelah’s father, who is deceased, her brother, who is the protégé of an aspiring rapper...
While the lack of office space has been a common concern surrounding extracurricular groups, it has not been the only one. The sense of community and spirit of cooperation that emerges from the student center might break down traditional boundaries between campus communities—service and political groups, racial and non-racial groups, for example. When a member of the International Relations Council can drop by the Fuerza office to discuss an upcoming project and then catch a Din and Tonics concert upstairs in the 4th floor performance hall, the campus might start to feel a bit more like...
...This is not to say that the lacrosse players were intentionally acting out some twisted racial power fantasy by hiring black strippers. And these turns of events have happened before. Fordham University professor Lynn Chancer, who has written extensively on race, gender and class issues in sociology and criminology, reminded me of another lacrosse team rape case -the three St. Johns University players tried for sexually assaulting and sodomizing a black female classmate in 1991. Those men were ultimately acquitted, and the jurors, including two blacks and two Hispanics, said race did not seem to have been a factor...
...Racial overtones aside, sexual assault is a horrifyingly common crime in this country (about one in six American women is a victim of rape or attempted rape, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network). The town-gown relations between Duke and Durham have been historically uneasy. And one would expect better from students at one of the country's top-ranked universities. We definitely expect better than the vile e-mail written by one of the players, Ryan McFayden, in which he invited his friends to watch him kill more strippers and "cut their skin...
...turnout was not about voter apathy so much as continuing frustration over the slow pace of recovery. "I think the lower turnout indicates how painfully hurt so many people still are, in so many ways," he said. "And you know, that cuts across geographic lines as well as racial lines...