Freedom Rider: Tuskeegee, Guatemala…

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

The Nazi “Doctor of Death,” Joseph Mengele, lived out his last years in hiding and infamy in South America. But the American Dr. Mengele, Dr. John C. Cutler, who infected human beings with syphilis in Alabama and Guatemala, died in the bosom of Yale University, a man of honor and high esteem. Cutler’s diabolical crimes were “normalized and praised” because they were committed against non-white people.

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How the dividing line between play and the reality of what a firearm is became blurred

When a Black teenager accidentally shoots his best friend, it is “all just one more weekend, one of those lunatic moments when one young Black man kills another young Black man, and once all the usual sociological theorizing rolls by, no one really knows why, except that it happened, and it’s to be expected, somehow.”  The author, who was both boys’ teacher, wonders “how the dividing line between play and the reality of what a firearm is became blurred.” For too many urban adolescents, “an acquaintance with firearms becomes as casual as the presence of the television remote.”

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Blacks/Latinos Hit Particularly Hard As Mortgage Crisis Lingers

by Doug Miller

The home foreclosure crisis isn’t even halfway over, according to a new report. Ethnically targeted mortgaging practices between 2004 and 2008 have left one quarter of all Latinos and African Americans either without their homes, in foreclosure, or seriously delinquent. “Blacks and Latinos were much more likely to receive high-interest subprime loans and mortgages with prepayment penalties.”

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Freedom Rider: Supreme Injustices

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Freedom Rider: Supreme Injustices

by Bar editor and senior
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Devolution in Ghana: 50 Years After Independence

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by Ron Wilkins

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