April 2011
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Black Women’s Maternal Deaths Go Unquestioned
The Seattle Medium – Statistics showing that African-American women die at much higher rates in childbirth and pregnancy don’t surprise Dr. David R. Williams. ”This pattern is not unique to childbirth,” said Williams, a professor of African and African-American studies and of sociology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. ”It affects the health of African [...]
Trump and Obama Birth Certificate Add Up to National Embarrassment
U.S. News & World Report – Politics often presents us with strange ironies, and the absurd birther conspiracy meant to discredit President Obama gives us a doozy. It was the existence of literacy tests for voters that kept African-Americans effectively disenfranchised in southern states until the 1960s. And yet, the persistent lie that the nation’s [...]
Conference Spurs Participants To Consider Higher Education Diversity Challenges
Diverse Issues in Higher Education – Inclusivity was the buzzword on Wednesday at the annual Diversity in Higher Education Conference at Duke University in Durham, N.C. It permeated conversations of modifying higher education to more readily accept non-mainstream cultures, changing what people consider to be the color of the race problem, and making online education [...]
Birtherist response highlights racial undertones of ‘debate’
The Ticket – During the 2008 campaign, questions about John McCain’s birth in the Panama Canal Zone on a U.S. military base prompted some to ask whether McCain was eligible to be president, since the Constitution stipulates that anyone not born in the United States is not eligible to be president. Amid a flurry of [...]
Analysis: Obama had no choice in ‘birther’ fight
Confronting doubters who harbor questions about his place of birth, President Barack Obama chose to defy one of his White House’s own rules: Don’t get dragged into the news skirmish of the day. This time, he decided he had to. In an extraordinary step, the White House produced a copy of his detailed Hawaii birth [...]
