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The effect is often jarring, in Washington, when someone inside the Beltway utters an uncomfortable truth. That's what Defense Secretary Robert Gates did at the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, putting a damper on pressure from his own Air Force for Congress to buy more F-22 fighters...
"The reality is we are fighting two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the F-22 has not performed a single mission in either theater," Gates said. That's the kind of statement that sends generals up the wall - not only because it's true, but because it's the...
Gates, who is the director of the Du Bois Insititute, said he was first inspired to tackle this project when he looked through the American National Biography and found gaps in the coverage of prominent blacks in American history. He said he consulted Higginbotham and they began work on the...
Even though it has been published, this largest source of black biographies will continue to increase, Gates said. Over the next two years, 2,000 additional life stories will be added online.
“I learned that the true history of the African-American contribution has not been told and will not be told until these lives and stories are released from the amber of the archives,” Gates said.