Read a feature article from Issue No. 64 (Summer 2009):

African Americans Show Solid Gains at All Academic Degree Levels --- In 2007 blacks continued their solid progress in attaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees. At both degree levels, blacks increased their number of degrees and also their percentage of total awards. Blacks also reversed a decline in professional and doctoral degrees that occurred in 2006.

Farewell, John Hope --- When the revered American historian John Hope Franklin died earlier this year, obituary writers around the world honored the passing of a beloved man who had left for posterity the nation’s most profound comprehension of the terrible consequences of slavery in the United States. Here Harvard University’s Henry Louis Gates Jr. pays tribute to the memory of a man he calls “The Prince.”

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