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The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Remember when Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley and President Barack Obama all sat down for the major news ...
AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home
BOSTON — Six Harvard University medical researchers were poisoned in August after drinking coffee that was laced with a chemical preservative, a...
New Scientist | Kurt Kleiner | Posted 10.18.2009 | Technology
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The Onion | The Onion | Posted 08.31.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON—Upon arriving late to his meeting with President Barack Obama and famed African-American intellectual Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge......
Hermene Hartman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
What happened to Gates is a daily occurrence in American ghettos. Police officers sometimes unfairly stop black men while driving their cars. It's called a "DWB" incident: driving while black. .
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
For every Henry Louis Gates, with resources, notoriety, and connections, there are countless others like him who have to live with the reality of racism in anonymity.
Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
I was thrilled to see the President invite Sgt. Crowley and Professor Gates to the White House. The more I consider who all three of these men are, the more they strike me as big, principled men.
Emma Coleman Jordan | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
The arrest of Professor Gates outside his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts is hotly disputed--in part because it brought about a murky interaction of three competing legal principles.
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
The problem isn't so much what happened with Crowley and Gates. A greater problem is the divide between famous and easily identifiable people of color and those with no defense.
Peter Y. Sussman | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
These lessons are not a comprehensive list and they are not rules, but the kind of awareness they exemplify might have defused the tense Gates encounter.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
As far as that pint of beer goes, I worry that it may take many shared kegs before we finally come together as a nation.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Rather than black vs. white in New England, this may have been the latest chapter of "town vs. gown" carried over from Old England.
Ray Hanania | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
When you look past the argument over race, you can see that a homeowner's rights were trampled on by the investigating and then arresting officer.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
Depending on the week, and the actors involved, the GOP Noise Machine is either opposed to identity politics or loves identity politics and wishes more people would call politicians as racists.
ABC News | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
President Obama today stood by his comments that the Cambridge, Mass. police department acted "stupidly" in its arrest of Henry Louis Gates, telling A...
Essence | Essence | Posted 08.22.2009 | Home
President Obama took a slight turn from health care during Wednesday night's press conference when he was asked about Harvard professor Henry Louis Ga...
Ahmed Rehab | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
While it is easy to come to the defense of a black man who happens to be a world class scholar, how many less fortunate blacks get arrested on even more flimsy grounds with no public outcry?
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
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.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.21.2009 | Comedy
"These academics may be armed and dangerous," Cambridge police chief Ryan Slatson warned. "They may also be long-winded and boring."
Daily Mail | Daily Mail Reporter | Posted 07.23.2009 | Style
Her modelling career is going from strength to strength. But it seems that Lily Cole is not just a pretty face, for the 21-year-old supermodel clearly...
Jimmy Tingle | Posted 07.18.2009 | Comedy
Tingle takes the train.
Donna Fish | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living
I have a confession that for some reason comes a surprise to the audiences I speak to, (not my friends and family who know this well!). I am a massive...
AP | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
LONDON — A German student at Britain's Cambridge University is standing trial for allegedly throwing a shoe at Chinese Premier Minister Wen Jiab...
indieWIRE | indieWIRE | Posted 06.21.2009 | Home
Stephen Frears cracked up a packed U.K. Pavilion in Cannes this week, going down memory road about his work with cinema. Paul King moderated the ...
msn.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living