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Tag: Barack Obama: Page 2
News Roundup
Obama Gives Trump Sharp Rebuke in Mandela Address on Values
JOHANNESBURG — Without ever mentioning President Donald Trump by name, former U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday took aim at “strongman politics” in his highest-profile speech since leaving office, urging people around the world to respect human rights and other values now under threat in an impassioned address marking the 100th anniversary of anti-apartheid leader […]
July 17, 2018
Opinion
Trump’s Art of the Deal: Merge Education and Labor Departments?
The White House publicly released a report called “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century” on Thursday, June 21. First among the 32 organizational reform priorities proposed by President Donald Trump is merging the departments of education and labor into a single entity: the Department of Education and the Workforce.
July 14, 2018
Native Americans
As American as Apple Pie
America isn’t divided by pundits and peddlers. It isn’t divided by vacuous political labels that tell us little about people’s commitment to mutual progress. Our country is divided because promoting the politics of exclusion is as American as apple pie.
June 21, 2018
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Scholars, Health Care Professionals Call for End to Family Separations at Border
As images emerge of child immigrants being separated from their families at the border, scholars and human rights advocates who study these issues refer to President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy as heartbreaking, immoral and, at the extreme, a “systematic use of violence.”
June 19, 2018
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For-Profit College Probes Fuel Rise in Consumer-Protection Sentiments
Amid new efforts to reinvigorate lethargic federal investigations of for-profit colleges, some academics who study higher education see the issue as a harbinger of wider conflict and change.
May 23, 2018
Opinion
How to Not Kill Our Sons
This is a call to action. Stop killing our sons, literally and metaphorically. Make a connection, be an ally. The best allies are the individuals who listen, advocate and empower others to do the same.
May 15, 2018
African-American
Pioneering Historian Mines Black Women’s History
As a young professor at Purdue University in the early 1970s, Dr. Darlene Clark Hine was confronted with a challenge that would ultimately change her career trajectory and position her as one of the nation’s most prominent historians.
March 6, 2018
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Coppin State Unveils Obama Bust
Coppin State University took another step this week toward linking its historical legacy with evolving events by unveiling a bronze bust of former President Barack Obama in honor of his efforts to acknowledge and recognize people most in need of help.
February 19, 2018
Opinion
Art As Political Resistance
For many people, America feels heavy. Whether mounting political challenges or the general decline in civility, the daily and nearly hourly updates from the political world make it difficult to find a moment of solitude.
February 18, 2018
African-American
Review: Volume Explores Diversity of Black Intellectual Thought
Black Americans are frequently regarded as a monolithic group that thinks, votes and worships the same way. Black scholars have worked to dispel this myth by pointing out the range and complexity of Black American experiences. Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America: A Historical Perspective is an edited volume that explores the diversity of Black intellectual thought. It includes an introduction and seven essays that highlight particular aspects of Black scholarship in America.
February 13, 2018
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North Carolina ‘Dreamers’ Volunteer, Mentor Young People
SANFORD, N.C. — After midnight one Saturday, Teresa Rivera and her mother, Juana Capcha, had just fallen asleep on the overstuffed couch in their living room in Huancayo, Peru. Suddenly, they were jolted awake by the sound of a door slamming shut as Rivera’s father stormed into the house — reeking of beer. He staggered over to Rivera’s mother and began an angry tirade.
January 23, 2018
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Cornel West Reflects on 25th Anniversary of Seminal Book ‘Race Matters’
An interview with Dr. Cornel West, professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Race Matters.
January 21, 2018
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