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]]> 2007-01-25T09:09:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070116_jabari_asim_bone_deep_similarities/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070116_jabari_asim_bone_deep_similarities/ africa, anthropology, eurasia, hominid, skull, Recent anthropological research suggests that our African and Eurasian ancestors were more genetically similar than we had thought.

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]]> 2007-01-17T05:49:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070108_jabari_asim_epithetical_distinctions/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070108_jabari_asim_epithetical_distinctions/ nigger, poet, rap, One of the poets credited with giving birth to rap music gives us another take on the most taboo racial epithet of them all.

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]]> 2006-12-26T05:00:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061218_jabari_asim_invisible_men/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061218_jabari_asim_invisible_men/ asim, ellison, history, invisible, race, revolution, Despite their courage and achievements in the Revolutionary War, blacks usually went unnoticed.  Now, finally, one such man receives some recognition.

 

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]]> 2006-12-19T06:28:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061211_jabari_asim_plagiarism/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061211_jabari_asim_plagiarism/ atonement, attention, authors, fiction, homage, ian mcewan, novelists, novels, plagiarism, writers, Let’s cut authors like Ian McEwan a little slack and allow him to “sample” from other works in the same way that every other artist does.

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]]> 2006-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061205_jabari_asim_here_we_go_again/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061205_jabari_asim_here_we_go_again/ asim, bell, bloomberg, diallo, giuliani, new york, police, shooting, The recent shooting of an unarmed black man in New York is another chapter in a long and heartbreaking tradition.

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]]> 2006-12-05T09:24:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061128_jabari_asim_overcoming_the_stigma/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061128_jabari_asim_overcoming_the_stigma/ african american, aids, asim, hiv, In advance of World AIDS Day, a new anthology confronts the stigma of HIV in the black community.

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