The red and the black
Black American radicals once forged links with Chinese communists
Now only echoes remain
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N FEBRUARY 23RD, from a basement in Queens, New York, a little-known organisation announced that China would be receiving a special honour. “We present [the] People’s Republic of China with the H.R. 1242 Resilience Project W.E.B. Du Bois Award,” wrote the group’s president, Victor Mooney, in a letter to the Chinese ambassador to the United Nations. The award celebrates China’s donation of the Sinopharm covid-19 vaccine to African countries. “W.E.B. Du Bois is a vivid reminder that China is a brother to Africa and African-Americans,” Mr Mooney added.
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Netflix s To All the Boys: Always and Forever does not do UC Berkeley justice
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Noah Centineo as Peter Kavinsky and Lana Condor as Lara Jean Covey in To All The Boys: Always and Forever. Sarah Shatz / Netflix
In the final installment of the Netflix teen rom-com saga “To All The Boys: Always and Forever,” Lara Jean Covey is utterly torn between two colleges: UC Berkeley and New York University.
Our lovelorn protagonist (played by the endlessly endearing Lana Condor) just came back from a life-affirming senior class trip to New York, which included a glam rooftop party, a trip to Levain Bakery for its cookies, and, for reasons only loosely explained, a theft of a pink couch.
Officers at dorms, outdoor exercise ban: UC Berkeley extends dorm lockdown with stricter mandates
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A lone pedestrian walks by Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley campus on July 22, 2020, in Berkeley, Calif.Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
New measures are being implemented in a dorm lockdown as UC Berkeley continues to grapple with a spike of COVID-19 cases on campus.
First reported by the Daily Californian, the self-sequester mandate for UC Berkeley students living in the dormitories, originally intended to end Monday, has been extended for another week, with stricter security measures in place, including third-party security and student campus security officers affiliated with university police.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology had its first African-American graduate, Robert R. Taylor, in 1892. It was only 25 years later, in 1917, that the university gave its first civil engineering diploma to an African-American. For quite a while throughout history, engineering was almost entirely the domain of white men.
Although Caucasian males still dominate the profession in the U.S. (only 5 percent of engineers are African-American, only 13.4 percent are women of any race, according to one 2011 report), it s important to recognize the significant legacies that Black men and women have created in the field [source: Koebler].
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In this article, we ll head from the copy machines at work to the satellites in space and meet some African-Americans who aren t just pioneers for their race but are trailblazers in their profession.