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#1 President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the first known affirmative action speech for black students at Howard University in 1965. He stated that the country had overcome legal segregation, but that the disparity between white and black Americans had widened after the Second World War.
#2 By the start of 1965, the Selma voting rights campaign had already been going on for...
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#1 The war against pandemics took a personal turn for me and my husband, Tom, when we were infected with the superbug Tomcat. We found out that there were no approved treatment options for the disease.
#2 Tom and I were globetrotting scientists who went looking for trouble in the world of infectious diseases. We had been planning our dream vacation, but after the attacks...
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#1 The United States was founded on the principle of diversity, but that has always been an uphill battle in America. Americans have always struggled with unity in diversity, and it is draining to constantly have to check your ego.
#2 In the future, white people will be a minority in America. This has many people worried, as they don't know how the country will handle...
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#1 I was trying to be humane, by creating a different awful situation, by telling my new husband to divorce me. I didn't want to ruin his life.
#2 The wedding is often the most important thing in a woman's life, eclipsing all of her accomplishments. And while we've made great strides in America to not be obsessed with weddings, we're still a society that loves them.
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#1 I was always trying to prove my national and cultural origins. When I told the kids at my public school that my family was from Palestine, the response was always the same: Palestine. Where's that.
#2 If you are Black in America, you visibly belong to a particular group. You can claim your culture with pride, and no one questions you. But me, I was so ambiguous that...
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#1 The Nazis were not simple nationalists, and their nationalist propaganda was directed toward their fellow-travelers and not their convinced members. The Nazis had a genuine and never revoiced contempt for the narrowness of nationalism, the provincialism of the nation-state, and they repeated time and again that their movement was more important than any state.
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#1 In October 1978, I was an Intelligence Unit detective for the Colorado Springs Police Department. I was assigned to scan the two daily newspapers for any reports of information concerning any hint of subversive activity that might impact the safety and well-being of Colorado Springs.
#2 I answered an ad placed by the KKK, and two weeks later I spoke to Ken O'Dell,...
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#1 The Teleological Argument states that the universe must have been designed by an intelligent creator because it is too complex to have arisen by chance. However, many scientists and philosophers have shown that complex systems can arise without a designer.
#2 The idea of complexity by design is flawed because it assumes that all complex things require an intelligent...
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#1 In 2014, Sharnalle Mitchell was arrested and brought to court because she owed the city of Montgomery money for traffic tickets. The judge ordered her to pay or stay in jail. She decided to stay in jail to protect her children.
#2 There are 2. 2 million people confined in prison and jail cells in the United States today. About 500,000 of those people are presumptively...
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#1 When I was six years old, my mother died. I was sent to spend a week with my grandmother. I was now old enough to begin to think about the future, and I asked myself what they would do with me. I felt sure I would never find another mistress as kind as the one who was gone.
#2 My mistress, who was a kindly woman, had taught me the precepts of God's Word. But when...
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#1 I was three years old when my parents moved me and my brother from Baghdad to Columbus, Ohio. I was taken out of daycare centers because of some incident, and I had to pee in my pants while sitting at the lunch table.
#2 I had a very strong aversion to milk, which led to me not drinking it. I also avoided group restroom times at day care because of the way the kids...
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#1 You are the first, and you have often been the only. You are the first Black woman in more educational settings or professional settings than you can count. You have accomplished more than most people in your family and community have.
#2 First and Only is a love letter, a manifesto for progress, and a leadership resource. It is the opening argument to a...
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#1 We all experience shame, and it is a silent, yet extremely destructive, force that affects everyone. It is the sense of worthlessness that comes from being embarrassed, and it can be triggered by someone else's criticism of you.
#2 The journey that opened my eyes to the insidious dominance of shame in our lives began when I was a pudgy girl living with her two overweight...
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#1 There are two ways to experience the police in America: as the people you call when there is a problem, or as the people who are called on you. For many, the police are the ones who are called on them.
#2 I was a college student at the time, and I was carrying weed to a Republican convention. I was almost caught, but fortunately nothing bad came out of it. With the...
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#1 In 2003, Robert Lucas, a professor at the University of Chicago, gave the presidential address at the American Economic Association's annual meetings. He declared that the central problem of depression prevention had been solved, and that modern macroeconomic policy had reduced the problem to the point that it was more of a nuisance than a front-rank issue.
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#1 I was the quintessential class bully at St. Damian Elementary School. I took great pleasure in routinely tormenting my eighth-grade classmates. I was target of Jake's taunts that day.
#2 I had to fight Jake Reilly, a bully, in eighth grade. I didn't have any friends in Oak Forest, and I was alone against him and his cronies. I prayed one of the teachers would stop...
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#1 The definition of testosterone is a hormone made in the testes that stimulates the development of male sex organs, secondary sexual traits, and sperm. However, this definition is misleading, because it makes it seem like T is only made by male bodies for male traits.
#2 The importance of context is crucial when discussing the singularity of T. T is a multiplicity...
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#1 Raisuddin worked at a mini-mart in Dallas, selling Americans three tamales for a dollar. The economy around the store was desolate, and it wasn't the economy of the legendary firms where third-world boys like him fantasized about working.
#2 Raisuddin grew up with America on his television screen, and thought of the place as a land of opportunity. But when he first...
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#1 Mama was a tall, long-waisted, young Black woman with the deep-set paisley eyes and high, full cheekbones of her Filipina and half-Cherokee grandmothers. She was a beautiful woman, but she took pride in controlling her own destiny.
#2 I was born in 1984 when my parents were still living with their parents. My mom was seventeen when she got pregnant with me, and my...
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#1 The Iberian Peninsula was a center of selling of Irish and Flemish slaves from the eighth to the eleventh centuries, while in the ninth century, Vikings sold tens of thousands of Europeans to the Arabs of Spain.
#2 The Iberian Peninsula was a target-rich environment for the Muslims who invaded in the post-1492 era. The peninsula was sparsely defended, and churches...
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