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Change the Definition. Make it poverty, not pigment. This is an imperfect solution. Yes, a disproportionate number of African Americans and Latinos are poor, but the majority of poor people are white-and more than a few are Asian. If race-based remedies are supplanted by class-based remedies, the...
At the same time that the State Department sent its representatives to Beijing recently to discuss future talks with North Korea, it denied a North Korean official permission to speak at Harvard. Pak Gil Yon, North Korea’s Ambassador to the United Nations, was tentatively scheduled to speak...
The powerful essays, taken together, represent a comprehensive course of action for improving the economic, social, and political conditions for all black Americans. In the introduction to “The Covenant,” Smiley writes, “Now is the time to stop talking about our pain...
Written shortly before the great cinematographer’s death in 1983, this autobiography fulfils the goals that Bunuel sets out in its first chapter: “The portrait I offer will represent me, with my conclusions, doubts, repetitions, truths, and lies. In one word—my memory...
The Shi'ites, a traditionally neglected and impoversished segment of Lebanese society, are generally thought to represent the largest of Lebanon's 18 sects, though a recent survey of eligible voters put their numbers at about the same as the Sunni population, at around 30% each. Census figures, however, are...