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Amy Goodman: Henry Louis Gates, Troy Anthony Davis, and the 21st Century Color Line
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Casey Gane-McCalla: What Do You Call a Black Man at Harvard?
July 22nd, 2009 |
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If one good thing can come out of the arrest, it is that upper class educated African Americans will realize that racial profiling is problem that affects us all.
Brandon M. Terry: A Stranger in Mine Own House: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Police in “Post-Racial” America
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Gates was charged with “disorderly conduct.” Blacks easily recognize this offense as the failure of a black to show proper deference to a white police officer.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested At Cambridge Home
July 20th, 2009 |
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BOSTON — Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. is accusing a Massachusetts police department of racism after being arrested while trying to get into his locked home near Harvard University.
Police say they were called to the home Thursday…
Gates: Americans Won’t Accept “Long Slog” In Afghanistan
July 19th, 2009 |
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After eight years, U.S.-led forces must show progress in Afghanistan by next summer to avoid the public perception that the conflict has become unwinnable, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in a sharp critique of the war effort.
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Joe Cirincione: Gates Grounds the Airborne White Elephant Laser
July 17th, 2009 |
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What a difference a president makes. Under President George Bush, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates resolutely defended every dime of last year’s $11 billion budget…
Gates Explains “More Humane” Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
July 17th, 2009 |
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Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that he was considering a temporary solution that would allow gays to serve in the military until the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is changed by Congress. Gates said he was looking…
Bill Gates’ Latest Venture: Stopping Hurricanes
July 16th, 2009 |
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Bill Gates and a team of co-inventors have proposed an idea for killing hurricanes before they can potentially make devastating landfall. The project, for which the inventors have submitted a patent application, involves placing vessels in the path of the storm and having them pull cooler water from beneath the oceans surface, which theoretically would rob the hurricane of its strength.
– Bill Gates continues to think big: a newly released patent
application shows the Microsoft founders latest project involves nothing short of controlling the weather. The
application, filed with the U.S. Patent and Trade Office by a
limited-liability corporation named Searete on Jan.
3, 2008, gro…
Martha St Jean: Race in America: Comments on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
One commentator said, ” I am tired of the race card being played every time a black person is arrested/questioned or anything else that happens with the police.”