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...science conference began more than 15 years ago with the aim of encouraging more women and minorities in the sciences. In 2006, Albert Einstein’s name was added to the conference to honor the physicist’s work lecturing at black colleges and speaking against racism and anti-Semitism. Muriel Payan ’08, the conference’s co-director, said that the event was part of an important push to encourage women and minorities to pursue the sciences. “Lots of women and minorities are not really taking that science, mathematics, engineering...
...what measure will you know that racism is dead in America? - Len Martinez, Crystal Lake, IL By what measure will I know that racism is dead in America. I don't know. I'll probably be dead in four hundred years before racism is dead in America. I am not going to see that. Nostradamus hasn't even seen the end of racism...
...teams of mostly middle school students spend the morning learning about an important social issue and exploring opportunities for citizen activism. In the afternoon they perform a service project and reflect on solutions for positive change. Issues they tackle include hunger and homelessness, ageism, HIV/AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse, racism and personal conflict...
Historian Winthrop Jordan's landmark 1968 book, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812, was not intended to critique modern race relations. But its layered research--which showed an absence of racism when whites and blacks first encountered each other as equals--proved that discrimination was not an ingrained American trait but a cruel and unusual choice...
...Nigger” is one of the worst words in the English language. But it should suffer the ignominious death of disuse, not the arbitrary end of a censor’s decree. Hatred and racism are ugly and despicable. But the only way to deal with them without lowering ourselves is through education and tolerance; fiat and prohibition lead only to other evils...