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...Black History Month. But what Mason, who died July 8 at age 54, wanted people to understand was that black history happens every day. She once said that as a child growing up in the 1960s South, she failed to appreciate the strides black leaders were making for racial equality--Thurgood Marshall wearing the robes of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Shirley Chisholm legislating in Congress, Martin Luther King Jr. toiling tirelessly in the struggle for civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judi Ann Mason | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...experience leads to the lessening of the occurrence of racial profiling, then I would find that enormously gratifying," Gates wrote in a statement on the website of the African American culture magazine The Root, of which he is editor-in-chief. "Because, in the end, this is not about me at all; it is about the creation of a society in which 'equal justice before law' is a lived reality...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tempering Demands for Apology, Gates Accepts Obama Beer Offer | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

...since then, the media's attention has shifted dramatically, as new details and accounts of the incident have been revealed. Crowley, who taught a police academy class on racial profiling for several years, has repeatedly stated that he would not apologize and that Gates had behaved loudly and irrationally at the scene. He has since received the full support of various police unions and a black police officer who had also been on the scene...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tempering Demands for Apology, Gates Accepts Obama Beer Offer | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

...Gates seems to have tempered his own incendiary demands for an apology as well, stating that his "principal regret" was distracting attention from the President's health care initiative. He said that he would use a new documentary for PBS to study the history of racial profiling...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tempering Demands for Apology, Gates Accepts Obama Beer Offer | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

...entire academic career had been based on improving race relations, not exacerbating them," Gates said in an e-mail to the Boston Globe. "I am hopeful that my experience will lead to greater sensitivity to issues of racial profiling in the criminal justice system. If so, then this will be a blessing for our society. It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this experience...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tempering Demands for Apology, Gates Accepts Obama Beer Offer | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

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