Salon took a stopwatch to the debate tape and found that Scott Brown spoke 23 minutes and 40 seconds to Elizabeth Warren's 18 minutes and 15 seconds.
By rsiasoco - 3/11/10 - 6:52 am
Driving home last night, I caught part of an episode of On Point with Tom Ashbrook. The topic was the 2010 U.S. Census.
By neilv - 2/12/09 - 5:46 am
In 1968, firefighter William Carroll rescued a baby, Evangeline Harper, from a burning building:
By adamg - 1/11/07 - 8:49 am
One of little Tae's favorite board books is Good Night Boston. Her mother begins to wonder about the portrayal of kids in it:
... [T]he asian kids are raising their hands. so is the kid with glasses. and so is the kid in the wheel chair. but that's IT. the other kids of color aren't raising their hands. is this the beginning of the model minority stereotype? in a board book?
and, um, what about the eyes? ...
By adamg - 4/29/05 - 6:15 pm
Derek takes a look at that Harvard study on racism in greater Boston and discusses his own
