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By Steven Jefferson topics include Oral Culture and For the past six years, the African Print Culture, Literary and African Diaspora Studies Contemporary Aesthetics, Slave Program has put on Works in Life, Beauty and Blackness. All Progress Series. The lecture series Works in Progress events will take allows prominent scholars and place in Lyons Hall 301 from 12-1p faculty in the field to present their and FREE lunch is always work to the Boston College provided. For more information on community. This year, Works in the Works in Progress in African Progress is pleased and delighted to Diaspora Studies, please visit our welcome Njelle Hamilton and Gina website at www.bc.edu/aads or Pugliese from Brandeis University, email Richard Paul at Speshal Walker from the University [email protected] of Massachusetts Boston, and Boston College’s own Peace Medie

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                                                                                                                                                 

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Pitts: The black self-loathing of the tea party probably would not exist Philadelphia 76ers NBA Herman Cain if Condoleezza Rice were president. basketball team His trivializing of their struggle Modern social conservatives, in my By Nina Mandell is an insult to African- experience, do not hate black people Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Americans en masse. To the contrary, there are Smith bought a minority stake in the By Leonard Pitts Jr. two kinds of blacks they love. The Philadelphia 76ers. This is for those who keep asking first is those, like Ms. Rice, who are Will Smith just bought a much what I think of Herman Cain. In mainly mute on the subject of race, bigger playground to spend most of particular, it's for those who want to seldom so impolite as to say or do his days. know what the tea party's embrace of anything that might remind people The Philadelphia native and wife, this black businessman turned they are black. The second is those Jada Pinkett Smith, are officially presidential candidate says about my who will engage on race, but only to minority shareholders of the 76ers claim that the tea party is racist. lecture other blacks for their failures NBA team in a deal that was I might eat the plate of crow those as conservatives conceive them. And confirmed by the league on Tuesday. folks proffer if I'd ever actually made that, friends and neighbors, is Herman The "Men In Black" star and his that claim. What I have said, fairly Cain all over. wife are part of an ownership group consistently, is something more Read the rest of this article at that includes a former NBA nuanced: Racial animus is an element baltimoresun.com executive… of tea party ideology, but not its Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith Read the rest of this article at entirety. As I once noted in this space, buy minority ownership in NYdailynews.com

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Peace A. Medie is a Ph.D. candidate It investigates the influence that in the Graduate School of Public and international and local International Affairs at the University nongovernmental organizations have of Pittsburgh. She earned a B.A. in on law enforcement. The American Geography and Resource Association of University Women, the Development from the University of International Federation of University Ghana and an M.A. in International Women, and the American Political Affairs from Ohio University. Her Science Association have supported dissertation “Police Behavior in this research. During her year at Post-Conflict States: Explaining Boston College, Peace will complete Variation in Responses to Domestic her dissertation and begin to revise it Violence, Human Trafficking and for publication. In the spring of 2012 Rape” studies the factors that lead Peace will teach a course entitled police officers in Liberia to forward “Gender and In(Security) in some violent crimes against women Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings” to court but allow others to be  resolved in the private sphere.  

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