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Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures Mathematician, Dies at 101.
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, one of the African American women mathematicians whose work at NASA was critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights and was highlighted in the book and movie “Hidden Figures” died on…
Read MoreGeorgetown students vote overwhelming in favor of $27 fee for slavery reparations
If you ask yourself “How can I contribute to reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, etc.?”, look to these Georgetown University students for an example and listen to the counter-proposal by William A. Darity, Jr., leading scholar on reparations. …
Read MoreDisproportionate use of force against black people by police in New Jersey is documented.
In New Jersey, a black person was more than three times more likely to face police force than someone who is white. This is one of the findings from a database of police use of force in New Jersey. “The Force Report, a…
Read MoreOn the Media: Covering Racism
“On the Media,” airing Saturdays at 7 a.m., covers how the media operates. This morning (March 3) it aired an extremely important segment on covering race and how America’s journalists are sometimes pawns for the KKK. The very last anecdote…
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