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Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.

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World Racism: Summer of Love and Hate

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment

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Whether you are the "hater" or the "hated," having a common enemy quickly unites people who are like minded -- for better or for worst.

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The Professor, the Policeman, and the Judge

Robin Lakoff | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Stereotypes, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sgt. James Crowley, Politics News

Now that the Gates-Crowley incident is beginning to fade from prominence, it is time to ask about the takeaway: what should we learn from this "teachable moment"?

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Whites Who Say Blacks Are Racist Are Onto Something

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

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In Glenn Beck's mind it doesn't add up. How can it be that people who are treated badly are not filled with hate?

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Justin Barrett, Boston Police Officer, Suspended For Calling Gates A "Jungle Monkey" In E-mail

Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | Home

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The fallout from the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest continues: the Boston Police Department has suspended an officer named Justin Barrett for using a ra...

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Black-Centric Website Edited By Gates Hit With Racist Comments

New York Times | Richard Perez-Pena | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media

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t was probably inevitable that in the furor over the arrest of the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., some people would resort publicly to the u...

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Lawrence O'Donnell: The Stupidity Of The Gates Arrest

TIME | Lawrence O'Donnell | Posted 08.25.2009 | Home

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Here is what the absurdist, typically stilted police language of Sergeant James Crowley's official report on his arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Lou...

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Gates: It's Time To 'Move On' From Arrest

AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 08.25.2009 | Home

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BOSTON — Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the enc...

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Drinking Past Racial Profiling: Obama and the Gates Arrest

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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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.

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Women Reporters Ask the Best Questions

Adele Stan | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Lynn Sweet, Julianna Goldman, Obama Press Conference, Cambridge Police Dept., Henry Louis Gates Jr., Obama Health Care, Christi Parsons, Women in Media, Women Reporters, Media News

What made Wednesday's press conference so interesting was that the men's questions were quite predictable, while the questions from Christi Parsons, Julianna Goldman and Lynn Sweet were anything but.

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Being Black on a Sunny Day

Carl Jeffers | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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The best news about the Professor Gates arrest in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its aftermath is the very fact that it is news -- big news.

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Gates and Crowley: Through a Racist, Classist Lens Darkly

Lennard Davis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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If we make the assumption that racism was in play in this event, but that Crowley was not necessarily a racist, we might also assume that class and social status was at play as well.

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Free Skip Gates

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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Crowley keeps complaining about Gates's "tone." It echoes teachers trying to assert authority over truculent children, and mothers and fathers with wise-guy kids at the dinner table.

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The Gates/Crowley Rorschach Test

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gates, Police, Race Relations, Cambridge Police, James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Race, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Politics News

Was this an instance of racial profiling? Did Gates overreact to a reasonable police request? The truth is that we simply do not have enough information to know what really happened in this case.

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Did I Tell You About the Time I Was Arrested?

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living

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The arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. the other day reminded me of the time a few years back when I was arrested and taken to the police station.

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A Stranger in Mine Own House: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Police in "Post-Racial" America

Brandon M. Terry | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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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.

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