As a graduate of Princeton University’s Politics’ department (Ph.D. Politics, 1991) and one of only two black Ph.D candidates in my graduate student cohort, I have followed recent student protest around the legacy of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton with great interest. As anyone familiar with Princeton’s campus knows, Corwin Hall, the building that houses the Politics department, stands adjacent to ...
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Tuesday is World AIDS Day, and a nurse who treated HIV patients in the Central African Republic wants the world to learn more about the virus and its patients — through art. In October 2014, 26-year-old Doctors Without Borders nurse Diana Johnson went to Zemio, a rural town in the Central African Republic, to train local medical personnel and help ...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Legendary TV producer Norman Lear believes there is still a place for shows to explore race relations issues in the same manner as his famed sitcoms “All in the Family” and “Good Times.” Lear, a champion of television diversity, took part in a panel discussion about race and American culture on Monday night at Morehouse College to ...
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On the afternoon of Nov. 28, officer Garrett Swasey responded to reports of an active shooter at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. Alleged gunman Robert Lewis Dear had reportedly taken hostages, and Swasey was called to help figure out how to defuse the situation. Dear didn’t plan on going quietly, however, and in an exchange of gunfire with police, ...
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The two Cleveland police officers involved in the November 2014 shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice had told investigators they believed he was a grown man with a gun, when in fact he was an adolescent with a replica gun. Summaries of what officers Timothy Loehman and Frank Garmback said happened in the moments before Loehman fired two shots that killed ...
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Prosecutors have charged four men in connection with a shooting at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis last week. Allen Lawrence Scarsella, the 22-year-old who allegedly fired the shots, was charged with one count of rioting while armed with a dangerous weapon and five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. Twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Martin Backman, 21-year-old Nathan Wayne Gustavsson and 26-year-old ...
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Media rhetoric so often lives in shades of gray, yet when it comes to the terms used to describe people in crime stories, its true colors may be black and white. Take the words employed over the weekend to describe Robert Lewis Dear, accused in the shooting spree at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Friday, killing three ...
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Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder November 24 in the death of Laquan McDonald. A video released by police shows Van Dyke shooting the teenager 16 times. Van Dyke is an extreme example of a pattern of unnecessary deadly force used by US police. American police kill a few people each day, making them ...
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SEATTLE (AP) — Most, but not all, students returned to a Washington state university Monday as police arrested a 19-year-old accused of making racial threats against black students and others on social media that shut down the campus last week. Western Washington University police in Bellingham arrested the male student on campus and booked him into jail on suspicion of ...
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Tuesday is World AIDS Day, and a nurse who treated HIV patients in the Central African Republic wants the world to learn more about the virus and its patients — through art. In October 2014, 26-year-old Doctors Without Borders nurse Diana Johnson went to Zemio, a rural town in the Central African Republic, to train local medical personnel and help ...
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