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Booker T. Washington studied and later taught at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) before going on to lead Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University).
Booker T. Washington studied and later taught at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) before going on to lead Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University).
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Goldberg: Courting Joe the Puppeteer
Earlier this month, the left-wing magazine the Nation highlighted Joe Therrien as a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A New York City public school drama teacher, Therrien was frustrated with the shortcomings of the school system. So he quit...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Occupy Wall Street, Joe the Plumber, Parties and Movements
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Tyler Perry to Spike Lee: You can go straight to hell!
The Big PictureSpike Lee has really been taking it on the chin this week. First off, his beloved New York Knicks have lost two straight games to the Boston Celtics, blowing big leads both times, seeing a lot of awful defense from...... -
What President Obama is telling high school graduates this year: 'Being president is a great job'
Top of the TicketDemocrat Obama tells Memphis' Booker T. Washington grads he's proud of them.... -
Weekly remarks: GOP's Hutchison decries domestic energy delays; Obama says school reforms can't wait
Top of the TicketRepublican Senator Hutchison says Democrats' domestic energy delays hurt jobs; Obama hails one Memphis high school.... -
Spike Lee discusses 'Miracle at St. Anna' (and Obama)
Special to The Times"NEWS flash," says director Spike Lee, grabbing the digital voice recorder that's on the table before him, placing it to his lips. "Spike Lee does not assume that every white person is racist. I do not feel that way. And I have not felt that way in the...Tags: Upper East Side, Derek Luke, Celebrities, Italy, Omar Benson Miller
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Presidents -- the good and the bad
We tend to lionize or demonize our presidents. It would be tough to find many Abraham Lincoln detractors -- or, for that matter, many Warren G. Harding fans. But even our greatest heroes occasionally failed, and the worst presidents could boast of some...Tags: Riots, John Tyler, William McKinley, Civil Rights, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia)
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'Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America' by Jay Parini
Jay Parini's knowledgeable analysis of key texts that have formed Americans' ideas about themselves and their nation, "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America," would make an excellent starting point for a college course. The author makes...Tags: Education, Immigration, Plymouth, Middlebury, David Brooks
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Race, post race
More than half a century ago, Langston Hughes captured the debilitating divide in the destinies of white and black children in his poem "Children's Rhymes": "By what sends / the white kids / I ain't sent: / I know I can't / be PresidentBy what sends / the...Tags: Georgetown University, Bill Cosby, Auto Racing, NASCAR, Civil Rights
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Avery Clayton dies at 62; carried on mother's work through African American library-museum
Avery Clayton, who carried on the work of his mother, Mayme Clayton, by establishing a library and museum in Culver City for her major collection of African American artifacts, died Thanksgiving Day. He was 62.
Clayton, a retired art teacher, died...Tags: U.S. Army, Death, History, Phillis Wheatley, Movies
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Is Obama the new 'black'?
GREGORY RODRIGUEZ is an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation. grodriguez@latimescolumnists.comWE KNOW this: Barack Obama is a rising star. He's a powerful speaker and a gifted writer. He is the only African American serving in the U.S. Senate. But is he black? That's what New York Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch asked last month, and his...Tags: Slavery, Jesse Jackson, Social Issues, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama
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Ruben Salazar remembered
Today the United States Postal Service adds Ruben Salazar to its honor role of American journalists by issuing a first-class Salazar postage stamp. But the former Times columnist had left his mark long before his death during the 1970 Chicano Moratorium...Tags: Parties and Movements, Advertising, Walter Mondale, Columbia University, Metal and Mineral
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