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...Harvard Law School last night explored issues of protest and community organization with an audience from throughout Harvard’s schools and the local community. The film, a documentary originally produced for and shown on PBS in 2007, portrays the black community’s violent riots in Newark, New Jersey, in the summer of 1967. It goes on to discuss how “the plight of the poor is forgotten” in the history of the ’60s and in important modern policy decisions. A panel of current organizers in Harvard?...
...forthcoming book The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop - And Why It Matters. The average median household income in Riviera Beach is about $10,000 lower than that in the rest of the country, and the city's per capita violent-crime rate is higher than the city of Miami's, according to 2007 FBI figures released this month...
...Pakistani people also, they want freedom. They want democratic values to be allowed in their country, also. They understand the dangers of terrorists having a stronghold in regions of their country, also. And I believe that they, too, want to rid not only their country, but the world, of violent Islamic terrorists...
...supposed to be Ole Miss's big moment. Hosting the first such forum of the general campaign, administrators hoped, would help the school shed the racial-backwater image that has clung to it since its embattled 1962 integration, when 120 federal marshals could barely hold back the violent riots that left two civilians dead and dozens injured. The fact that the debate participants will include Barack Obama, the nation's first black presidential nominee of a major party, would only add to the symbolism. The high-profile event is a chance "to invite the nation and the world to visit...
...belief system with no basis in reality. So you can see why someone who prizes rationality would have a problem with that. And Amis minces no words.Islamism, that deranged mania, is the fuel to terrorism’s apparently unstoppable machine. “It is not merely violent in tendency,” Amis writes. “Violence is all that is there.” It is a despicable yet undeniably powerful state of mind, one that swallows up all other thought.In the volume’s longest essay, “Terror and Boredom: the Dependent...