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Three prominent professional women of color told their stories of facing racial barriers and suggested ways to navigate the mostly white-male dominated corporate world in a panel discussion last night in Boylston Hall’s Ticknor Lounge...
...city. This hypothetical argument is as demeaning as it is preposterous because it completely fails to recognize the larger aims of the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott was not about African Americans wanting to sit where they chose on a bus; it was about furthering the goal of racial equality in America. Similarly, the Michigan boycott is not about whether any group of students should have control over a college newspaper. It is about combating racism and setting a standard of racial equality on campus...
According to a 2001 Gallup Poll that was reported by the Newhouse News Source, 62 percent of whites and 91 percent of African Americans believe that we haven’t yet reached racial equality in America. Even putting aside the huge gap in perception, there is undeniable consensus that racism is still a part of the mainstream. If not perpetrated by extremists, how then is such a feeling so thoroughly ingrained in our culture? Through the very nature of our dialogue. In the case of the Daily, as posted on the boycott’s website, these subtleties were...
Significant long-term progress in socio-economic diversity depends upon its inclusion in Harvard’s recruiting and admissions priorities alongside crucial initiatives at racial, ethnic and geographic diversity. Improving low-income recruiting will only reinforce those efforts...
...Mile occasionally steps outside the strictures of its plot to comment on rap, race and class. The movie takes its name from a real road in Detroit which marks the unofficial boundary between the white and black sections of the city. In the film, 8 Mile Road represents the racial barrier Rabbit must overcome to achieve success in a predominantly black art form. For those looking for it, 8 Mile thus doubles as political and cultural commentary, persuasively rebutting the idea that rap can be performed and appreciated exclusively by members of one race...