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...black Harvard graduate from the class of 1902, wrote to Abbott Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877 and the University’s 22nd President, to ask whether his son might be allowed to reside in a previously all-white freshman dorm. Lowell was a self-described "friend of the negro," but this request seemed clearly beyond the pale. "I am sure you will understand," wrote Lowell to the concerned father, "why we have not thought it possible to compel men of different races to live together...
Landrieu joined Deputy Mayor of New York City Linda I. Gibbs, Senior Advisor for Social Innovation in the White House Michele Jolin, and President of the United Negro College Fund Michael L. Lomax in a panel moderated by Harvard Kennedy School professor Stephen Goldsmith...
Census officials say they're simply adhering to race-category standards laid out for all federal agencies in 1997 by the White House Office of Management and Budget, criteria they confirm will be re-evaluated before the 2020 census. (The Census that year will also be unlikely to retain Negro as a designation for African Americans; it is still on the 2010 form, a fact that has led to repeated apologies from the Census chief.) And Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group in Washington, D.C., says the Hispanic race question...
Race has long been a muddled matter: 1890 classifications included mulatto, quadroon and octoroon, Chinese and Japanese. In 1930, Mexican was listed. The 2010 survey has caused a stir with the inclusion of Negro in addition to black and African American...
...trip was a “volunteer-cation” because, when we weren’t working, we explored the beauty of Nicaragua—surfing down the volcano Cerro Negro, swimming in a freshwater lagoon, playing games like “never have I ever” on cots under the stars, and dancing (or attempting to dance) to reggaeton. Through these shared experiences, I bonded quickly with the other volunteers; maybe because of our common interests, or perhaps our shared lack of cell phones, Facebook, and adequate deodorant, we formed relationships that will undoubtedly carry on even...