The Impact of Your Name

“Why do we discriminate based on names? It may not be about race but instead what some names signal about a person’s background.
“A distinctively black name tells us that a person typically comes from a neighborhood that has higher poverty, lower income, more likely to have teen mothers, et cetera,” Fryer said.
“There’s new [...]

Princeton Opens New Center for African American Studies

Princeton professor, Nobel and Pulitzer (not that Pulitzers mean anything anymore) winner Toni Morrison.

“Building on a strong core of faculty with a history of distinguished contributions to African American studies, Princeton University is establishing a new center to serve as a model for teaching and research on race in America.

“President [...]

Give $8 to History

Bill Cosby called Friday on each American to contribute $8 to help build a national slavery museum amid the battlefields of the Civil War.
Cosby, who already has committed $1 million to the project, joined Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder on Friday in launching a new campaign to raise $100 million toward the Fredericksburg museum’s $200 [...]