African American

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  Margaret Henry

  

  Why Calling Slaves 'Workers' Is More Than An Editing Error

  NPR - Laura Isensee

  Coby Burren was reading his textbook, sitting in geography class at Pearland High School near Houston, when he noticed a troubling caption. The 15-year-old quickly took a picture with his phone and sent it to his mother. Next to a map of the United States describing "patterns of immigration," it …

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/antonio-moore/cosby-show-dreams-and-afr_b_8324274.html

  

  Margaret Henry

  Oct 20, 2015

• http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-taser-jonathan-miller-20151014-story.html

  

  Margaret Henry

  Oct 16, 2015
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  Margaret Henry

  

  Being black can be bad for your health: Race, medicine and the cruelest unfairness of all

  Salon

  On a spring morning in 1997, Jim Harper, a young man from Durham, North Carolina, woke up in his two-bedroom apartment with no clue that he would soon become gravely ill. The first signs of trouble seemed innocent enough: some numbness on the right side of his face and in his right arm and hand, …

• http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/cosby-show-kids-talk-discrimination-and-race.html?mid=twitter_vulture

  

  Margaret Henry

  Oct 10, 2015

• http://www.slate.com/articles/life/inside_higher_ed/2015/10/mount_holyoke_racial_discrimination_case_are_slurs_in_the_classroom_ever.html

  

  Margaret Henry

  Oct 10, 2015