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February 07, 2007 09:21 AM EST -- I was literally applauding as I read this article in the NY Times online yesterday.  As a black person who has been praised for as long as I can remember for "speaking well" and "being . . . more
February 08, 2008 10:58 AM EST -- In the mid-1990s, writer James McBride scored a bestseller with "The Color of Water," his memoir of growing up the black son of a white mother in America. Now, McBride gives the immense . . . more
March 18, 2008 10:33 AM EDT -- For the past two decades Barack Obama has attended Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side.  Now, in the white heat of a presidential campaign, the pastor of his black church, . . . more
March 19, 2008 10:24 AM EDT -- Barack Obama has worked hard to transcend race on the campaign trail but American and personal history have intervened. Yesterday in Philadelphia, in a speech hailed as historic, Obama squarely addressed . . . more
On Point: IQ and Race
by On Point Webmaster
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December 17, 2007 11:28 AM EST -- When Nobel Laureate James Watson suggested in an interview recently that Africans are not as intelligent as Caucasians, the backlash came quickly especially from the scientific community. The same . . . more
May 21, 2008 11:42 AM EDT -- In the New Deal era, the Democrats owned the white working class. In the Civil Rights era, they lost them. Not all, of course, but enough to give Republicans win after big win. Kentucky and Oregon . . . more
July 09, 2007 09:55 AM EDT -- Right behind the big three Republican presidential candidates in Iowa polls stands a man who ought to fill the bill for GOP conservatives. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is proud to say he’s . . . more
January 15, 2008 10:33 AM EST -- When lily-white Iowa put African-American Barack Obama at the top of the Democrats' Iowa Caucuses, it felt for a moment like a brand new day in this country on race.   In the twelve days . . . more
The New Space Race
by On Point Webmaster
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October 02, 2007 02:54 PM EDT -- Fifty years ago this week, the Soviet satellite Sputnik jolted Americans when it soared into space.  Its beeping signal from the heavens was like an alarm clock to an America that suddenly feared . . . more
August 09, 2007 11:04 AM EDT -- Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam is a self-described full-on liberal who worries a lot about community in America. He made his name in the 1990s with his finding that hordes of Americans were, . . . more
September 19, 2007 11:09 AM EDT -- In March 2006, an all-white Duke Lacrosse team hired a black exotic dancer to come to their party.  Her charges of rape against three players exploded across America’s media.  There was . . . more
July 02, 2007 11:20 AM EDT -- Across the country today, American schools and educators are still trying to figure out the full implications of last week's big Supreme Court ruling on race and school assignments. A half century . . . more
 
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