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A conversation with the anthropology professor at New School University.
Harvard primatologist Richard Wrangham came by Big Think a few weeks ago to discuss cooking and all of its evolutionary implications. Did you know that cooking is a huge influence […]
The NAACP president’s favorite comedian is also his godbrother.
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As a person of “mixed race,” the NAACP president has little use for racial categories.
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The NAACP president gives the president “wide latitude,” but wishes Obama would focus more on one issue: criminal justice reform.
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Obama’s election surprised the NAACP president’s grandfather—but not Jealous, who saw it as another “big and impossible dream” that black Americans would prove possible.
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The man who organized MLK Jr.’s march on Washington was gay; so is Ben Jealous’s brother. The NAACP president thinks LGBT activists could find their staunchest allies in African-Americans—if they […]
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Environmental catastrophe affects everyone, yet the green movement is mostly white. What can be done to bring minorities into the fold?
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As old forms of discrimination disappear, new ones arise. The NAACP president describes an injustice that’s hitting particularly hard during the recession.
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Education reform was “job one” for the NAACP in the last century. Sadly, despite progress in other areas, it still is.
As a kid, I loved my oversized reproduction of Action Comics #1, the June 1938 issue in which Superman, the first true superhero, burst onto the scene and changed the […]
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Why is a subject long treated as a joke now drawing serious attention? Because white-collar criminals are coming forward with horror stories.
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How the American justice system turns petty (and mostly black) criminals angry, desperate, and dangerous.
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From battling the black incarceration rate to retooling public education, the NAACP’s 21st-century platform is nothing short of a “broad domestic human rights movement.”
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The NAACP president grew up hearing that civil rights was a settled issue, only to find that cancerous racial problems still persisted.
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An interview with the president of the NAACP.
Scientists think toads may be able to predict earthquakes by sensing "pre-seismic perturbations in the ionosphere."
"If ever there was a scientific theory that is fundamentally historical, that purports to explain change over time, it is evolution through natural selection," writes Donald Worster.
A group of scientists is hoping to transform fast food waste oil into a high-tech polymer and create a "smart roof coating system" which will help to insulate homes.
The moral and legal debate over the use of military drone aircraft raises questions about how adequately the current laws of war have been adapted to the age of terrorism.