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Diversity NewsKingsley and Glover to Star in New Einstein Film
This film will be based on the book by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, Einstein on Race and Racism. Jerome and Taylor spoke at SLAC as guest speakers during Black History Month in 2006. See Louverture Films' press release. Photo of Kingsley courtesy of poster.net. | |
Two-Plus Race Reporting CategoryNew employment reporting forms and policy allow employees and applicants a new option in racial category self-identification. New EEO guidelines allow for individuals of mixed heritage to opt for the "two-plus" race category. | |
Black immigrants, the invisible model minorityDo African immigrants make the smartest Americans? If you were judging by statistics alone, you could find plenty of evidence to back it up. In a side-by-side comparison of 2000 census data by sociologist John Logan at the Mumford Center, State University of New York at Albany, black immigrants from Africa average the highest educational attainment of any population group in the country, including whites and Asians. For example, 43.8 percent of African immigrants had achieved a college degree, compared to 42.5 of Asian Americans, 28.9 percent for immigrants from Europe, Russia and Canada, and 23.1 percent of the U.S. population. That defies the usual stereotypes of Asian Americans as the only "model minority." Yet the traditional American narrative has rendered the high academic achievements of black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean invisible, as if it were a taboo topic. This article is by Clarence Page (cpage@tribune.com), a writer for the Chicago Tribune. |
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Albert Einstein is widely known and loved as the world's most famous
scientist. Lesser known dimensions of this brilliant man's life are his
political work and social activities, including his enduring friendship with
actor-singer-activist Paul Robeson. Louverture Films and Bipolar Pictures
are currently teaming to produce a new film on the friendship between Einstein
and Robeson and their shared work for social justice.