HICCUP a slam dunk, gets b-ball court built
Brian Mickelson
March Madness is the time of the year for millions of college basketball fans to watch the best teams in the country compete for a national championship.
But for the youths living in Boston’s Harbor Point Housing Development, basketball is much more than just a game.
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Leading black education historian sets record straight
Brian Mickelson
By some accounts, the achievement gap between blacks and whites is driven in part by cultural misperceptions that communities of color do not share the same values on education as mainstream society.
But according to James D. Anderson, professor and head of the department of educational policy at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Anderson, a leading scholar on the history of education in African American communities and the author of the award-winning book “The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935,” casts some of the blame on the “gap hysteria” that started around the late 1990s.Full story
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A mature vision
Barack Obama soared to celebrity status after he delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. The theme of his speech struck a responsive chord among many Americans.
Most citizens of the United States are immigrants or the children and grandchildren of immigrants. As such, Americans can relate to Obama’s story. He is the son of a foreign student from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. He stated, “My parents shared not only an improbable love; they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.”
Then, in a profound affirmation of patriotism, Obama said, “I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all those who came here before me, and that, in no other country on earth, is my story even possible. Full editorial
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