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White House's brew: Bud Light -- report
The Swampby Mark Silva When the president, the professor and the police officer meet for a beer in the White House tomorrow to talk about racial problems, the president will be serving Bud Light. So say Hans Nichols and Nicholas Johnston......Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., White House, Prosecution, Dining and Drinking, Alcoholic Beverages
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Henry Gates: Harvard for sergeant's kids
The Swampby Mark Silva Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's looking forward to his next talk with Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, maybe lunch, maybe dinner with the families, maybe getting the officer's kids into Harvard -- if the......Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Major League Baseball, Sports, Culture, Cultural Development
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'Equality in the Age of Obama:' Gates
The Swampby Mark Silva Out on Martha's Vineyard, where President Barack Obama and his family will spend a week's vacation, tourism isn't all they are talking about. At a forum billed as "Achieving Equality in the Age of Obama,'' Henry Louis......Tags: Crimes, Prisons, United States, Arts and Culture, U.S. Presidential Election (2008)
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Bill Cosby: Obama has Bush to thank
The Swampby Mark Silva As The Cosby Show celebrates its 25th anniversary this coming Sunday, star Bill Cosby is posed the question: Did the black family that he presented to the American television-viewing audience in the 1980s pave the way for......Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., United States, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), U.S. Presidential Election (2008)
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SNL's Obama: 'Nothing, nada'... Problem?
The Swampby Mark Silva Several years back, when Saturday Night Live made fun of Democrat Al Gore's plodding debating style in a televised skit between the first couple of face-offs between Gore and Republican George W. Bush, the Gore campaign took......Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alaska, John McCain, Entertainment, Recording Industry Association of America
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Ticket Replay: The Obamas rent Martha's Vineyard home from a John McCain supporter
Top of the TicketAnd, of course, the palace has its own basketball for you-know-who to do you-know-what.... -
Mass. Officer Who Arrested Black Harvard Scholar Is Police Academy Expert On Racial Profiling
Associated Press WriterCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on understanding racial profiling. Cambridge Sgt. James...Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Crimes, Death, Regional Authority, Boston Celtics
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Cambridge Cop Gets Standing Ovation in Long Beach
KTLA NewsLONG BEACH -- The Cambridge police officer who arrested a Harvard professor received a standing ovation Monday at the Fraternal Order of Police convention today in Long Beach. Sgt. James Crowley, who is white, arrested black Harvard scholar Henry Louis...Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., White House, KTLA, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Police Arrests
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Black Scholar Says He's Able to Joke About Arrest
CHILMARK, Mass. -- Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Sunday joked about his arrest by a white police officer, but also described receiving death threats and dreaming about being arrested at the White House.
In his first public appearance...Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Documentary (genre), Death, Politics, Family
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Obama, Gates & Crowley Make Picks for Tonight's White House Beer Summit
President Barack Obama will be serving everyone's favorite beer at a special White House meeting Thursday night.
He's invited Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., in hopes of moving past the racially charged...Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., White House, Social Issues, Racism, Barack Obama
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Obama Eases Comments On Henry Gates Case
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersA day after saying that police "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University professor in his own home, President Obama appeared to soften his stance Thursday, spreading the blame more equally between the police and the arrested man. Obama had...Tags: Jeremiah Wright, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Crimes, ABC (tv network), Assault
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White House's Canadian/U.S. beer run
The Swampby Mark Silva This is a White House that knows a little -- Okay, maybe very little -- about beer diplomacy. But it knows this: Why send one case of brews, when two will do? President Barack Obama owed the......Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dining and Drinking, Sports, Olympic Games, Alcoholic Beverages
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