AltWeeklies Wire
UNLV Prof Questions Science Behind Finding African Ancestorsnew
Rainier Spencer, the founder and director of UNLV's Afro-American Studies Program, thinks programs offering to link American blacks to their African lineage through DNA (for a fee) are a black-on-black rip-off, since they commercialize a promise they can't truly keep.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Damon Hodge |
05-02-2008 |
Race & Class
Heritage Study Claiming Rich, Educated Troops is Fantasy
In fact, the troops are poorer, less educated, and disproportionately African-American -- just as we thought all along.
Brass-Band Funeral: Jazz and Destructionnew
Katrina brought home what a lot of us tourists sensed implicitly for years: that the New Orleans cultural scene owes much of its vitality to a community that lives on the edge of subsistence, for which that culture isn’t merely "entertainment," but truly a matter of life and death.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
09-13-2005 |
Disasters
