With only 13% of African Americans in higher education, these colleges [HBCUs] awarded nearly 30%
of all undergraduate degrees earned by African American students in the science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines; 50% of all bachelor’s degrees in teacher education received
by African American students; and 85% of Doctor of Medicine degrees acquired by African Americans
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Even [Ron] Paul, should he be elected and effect the gold standard, wouldn’t change
much. Chomsky would be happy with his mid-east policy, and Vick would benefit
financially from the deflation. I think, I could adjust, as well, but I am afraid most
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Liberia is teaching us with the Knuckles affair that the conscience
of its people has not been seared by a terrible war
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Liberia: The Willis Knuckles Saga
Nude Threesome Photo Causes Minister to Stand Down from Post
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Happy 160th Birthday
Showcasing Liberia’s Resources Through Fashion
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Happy 160th Birthday
Showcasing Liberia’s Resources Through Fashion
August 2007 Washington, D.C.
On July 26th at the Liberian embassys annual Independence Day reception for the Diplomatic Corps, Mokoli Productions, Inc. staged Happy 160th Birthday: Showcasing Liberia’s Resources through Fashion. The … Read the rest
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No serious history of the development of the African American novel
from the 1950s onward can be written without reference to John
Oliver Killens. A two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and
founding chairman of the legendary Harlem Writers Guild
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By focusing on the diversity of local histories beyond Oakland and Los Angeles,
the contributors to this volume reconstruct a more complex and illuminating portrait
of the Black Panther Party. The mission of the historian also can become more difficult
as evidenced by problems with the location and reliability … Read the rest
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Once the world envied when it came to primary and secondary
education, America no longer ranks amongst the world’s top 20, having
made a Faustian compromise that has placed us at the top in military expenditure
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“Liberals” Hate the Military?
Everybody Hates Social Welfare
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The Federalists wrote the Constitution, according to Wood, to insert republican checks
on American democracy, and upon democratic individualism. But to get the people
to ratify the Constitution, the Federalists had to appeal to the sovereignty of the people.
As a result, they secured the triumph of the very democracy … Read the rest
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For according to our wayward brother, “the plain truth is that we are all individuals.” He has
also given up his romantic ideas about Africa. So for him Pan-Africanism has been tossed
out with the bath water. He said, “I often thought of migrating to Africa.”
But now he … Read the rest
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But here in this brutal attack on Ms. Rice, he comes off as a henchman in defense of
American racism and imperialism. His primary tactic is to redirect criticisms of
America’s shortcomings elsewhere. From Crouch’s perspective, we are too indulgent
in “romantic blubberings about Africa,” a continent, for him, … Read the rest
