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A People on the Precipice?

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, October 29, 2009

The recent news of the savage gang rape of a fifteen year-old girl in Richmond, California broke my heart. Again. I have thought of little else since hearing the gruesome details of the child's ordeal, as others stood by-watching, cheering, filming, or partaking - for over two and ½ hours. For

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The House Rules

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, October 21, 2009

Morehouse College has laid down the law.  And not a moment too soon... As has been widely reported in many of the major national news outlets, the storied all-male private college, known as “Harvard of the South,” has issued a sweeping dress code for all of its 2,700 students.  In case

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Of a Black President, White Children, and Maintaining the Status Quo

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, September 14, 2009

Last week proved quite revealing. It began with the conservative hysteria surrounding President Obama's education speech to the children of America, and it culminated with the extreme right wing 9/12 Tea Party March on Washington this weekend, billed as a gathering of "freedom loving patriots." And just when you thought things couldn't

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It is High Time for a Black Woman on the High Court

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, June 2, 2009

"Make me do it." -Barack Hussein Obama The relevance of the above challenge issued by then-Senator Barack Obama will soon become obvious. For now, let me first congratulate Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the soon-to-be vacant seat of retiring high court Associate Justice David Souter. Obama's historic nomination of the first Latina to

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Black History, No More?

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, May 22, 2009

Now that Barack Obama is President of the United States, why don't we just pretend that America wasn't built on slaveholding? If the spate of recent "post-racial" articles suggesting that we need no longer commemorate the African American struggle for freedom and equality in this country is any indication, this seems

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Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Journalist Janet Roach reports on the Diverse-sponsored panel discussion, “The Critical Role of Mentoring in Increasing Graduates and Faculty of Color”. The panel discussion was held in Washington, D.C. during the 98th annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.


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