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Travel Ace Kiratiana Freelon Shares Culture and the Black experience in Paris
Kiratiana Freelon is author of Kiratiana’s Travel Guide to Black Paris: Get Lost and Get Found. Ytasha: How did you come up with the idea to do a travel guide for Black Paris? Kiratiana: I came up with the idea in spring 2002 when Harvard awarded me this travel scholarship. I wanted to come up
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Feb 13, 2012
Ghanaian Emcee Blitz the Ambassador Talks Hip-hop and Cultural Paradigms
Ghanaian-born rapper Blitz the Ambassador champions changing identity and bridges the universality of the African
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Feb 9, 2012
Seasoned Baller Theo Hill Coaches Leadership in Youth through Sports
Theo Hill is Founder and Executive Director of the M.A.D.E Foundation, a Chicago-based basketball
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Feb 6, 2012
Sister Duo Blends Sci-Fi, Comedy and Puppetry with New HR Web Series
Kyra and Kozi Kyles are sisters with a serious sci-fi leaning. The twosome launched
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Oct 17, 2011
Dorothy Roberts Debunks Race as Biological in “Fatal Invention”
Dorothy Roberts is author of the new book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press, 2011). She is also the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, with appointments in the departments of Sociology and African American Studies. Here she discusses the rise in identifying race as biological among some scientists
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Travel Ace Kiratiana Freelon Shares Culture and the Black experience in Paris
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Ghanaian Emcee Blitz the Ambassador Talks Hip-hop and Cultural Paradigms
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Seasoned Baller Theo Hill Coaches Leadership in Youth through Sports
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Sister Duo Blends Sci-Fi, Comedy and Puppetry with New HR Web Series
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