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Goodbye Jefferson Davis, Hello Barack Obama for Mississippi Elementary School

Matthew McDonald

School officials at predominantly black Davis IB Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi have decided to rename the school after Barack Obama, the former president of the United States. The current name honors Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War; the "IB" stands for "International Baccalaureate," an international diploma program.

More Than Two Weeks Later, Harvard Pulls Plug on Harvey Weinstein African-American Honor, But What About the Money Trail?
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More Than Two Weeks Later, Harvard Pulls Plug on Harvey Weinstein African-American Honor, But What About the Money Trail?

Evan Lips

CAMBRIDGE — Days after a New Boston Post exposé documented in detail Harvard University's 2014 awarding of its W.E.B. Du Bois medal to embattled Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein, the elite Ivy League institution has elected to rescind the honor — but will the school's affiliated nonprofit theater act similarly with Weinstein's financial largesse?

Weinstein, the subject of an explosive October 5 New York Times report alleging a lengthy history of sexual abuse and subsequent efforts to cover it up through intimidating tactics, was one of eight honored with the prestigious social justice award in September 2014 by Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Earlier this week, the director of Hutchins Center, Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, did not respond to New Boston Post's request for comment regarding Weinstein's award.

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