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Hopkins students, professors discuss fallout from Trayvon Martin case
Johns Hopkins University professor Nathan Connolly sees the Trayvon Martin case in terms far broader than the details of how the Florida teenager was shot and killed at the end of February.
Look at the attempts by some to dismiss race as a potential...Tags: Police Arrests, Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning, Trayvon Martin, Johns Hopkins University
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Trayvon Martin case strikes deep chord with Baltimoreans
When 17-year-old John Edwards was shot in the head on Edmondson Avenue this month, no one marched on City Hall.
There were no comparisons to Emmett Till, no columns in national newspapers about the anxieties of growing up black and male in a country...Tags: Racism, Pneumonia, Juvenile Delinquency, Kenneth N. Oliver, Barack Obama
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TV THIS WEEK: March 25 - 31
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of March 25 - 31 in PDF format TV listings for the week of March 25 - 31 in PDF format are also available at latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv Weekly TV Listings and more...... -
Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores race, culture and identity in new “Finding Your Roots” series
Channel Guide MagazineIn recent years, genealogy has enjoyed a renaissance as a trend on reality shows like NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, and that can be attributed in large part to Harvard scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (pictured), whose PBS specials African... -
March 2012 TV premieres & specials
RedEyeMarch TV highlights include new seasons of "Mad Men," "South Park" and "Breaking In," the series premieres of "Awake," "GCB" and "Missing," and the final season of "In Plain Sight." Take a look at the season and series premieres for March below. As usual,...Tags: Chiller (tv network), Science, South Park (tv program), Science and Technology, Army Wives (tv program)
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Burb's Eye View: It's getting easier to find the right genes
The steps leading down to the quiet storefront added to the intimidation. He remembers it not as a cellar, exactly, but it was a small, dense room underneath the street-level life pulsing away in the evening. Leo Myers, then just a teen, approached the...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Abraham Lincoln, PBS (tv network), Research, Slavery
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Touré on the role of race in a 'post-black' culture
A man with salt-and-pepper hair stood recently in front of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, glaring at an oversized poster promoting a reading Monday night by the cultural critic Touré from his new book, "Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?"
"Post-blackness?"...Tags: International Travel, The New York Times, Chuck D, Jesse Jackson, Politics
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Nonfiction
The Age of Movies
The Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
Edited by Sanford Schwartz
Library of America, $40
Witty, entertaining and often exhilarating, this wide-ranging collection of pieces captures the film critic at her best.
Alice James
A...Tags: Gun Control, The New York Times, Wars and Interventions, Condoleezza Rice, Ellen DeGeneres
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Obama: Another disappointing black politician? [Most Commented]
Opinion L.A.President Obama's status as a black politician was the subject of debate last month between two black scholars who argued that the president had not urgently addressed black issues. Princeton professor Cornel West argued that Obama has been adopting a....... -
'Black in Latin America'
Zap2ItThe latest PBS miniseries by professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. ("America Beyond the Color Line"), this documentary finds the noted Harvard scholar exploring the title theme by probing the backgrounds - and commonalities - of many of the residents of Brazil,...Tags: Dominican Republic, Documentary (genre), DVDs
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Tuesday's Highlights: 'Hellcats' on KTLA
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of April 17 - 23 in PDF format TV listings for the week of April 17 - 23 in PDF format (from latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv) Weekly TV Listings and more can be found...... -
'Black in Latin America': Gates opens up on history
Zap2ItAs more people probe their own roots, professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. is probing the roots of entire peoples. The writer, critic and Harvard scholar returns to PBS with the miniseries "Black in Latin America," airing over four consecutive Tuesdays...Tags: CNN (tv network), Dominican Republic, Real Estate, African Americans, Slavery
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