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'Negro' Not Allowed On Federal Forms? White House To Decide

3:40pm December 13, 2017

by Hansi Lo Wang

The Trump administration has delayed announcing its decision on an Obama-era proposal to stop allowing the term "Negro" to appear on federal forms collecting information about race.

Are Americans becoming less racist? Are children more accepting than their parents? Will racism ever die away?

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Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die?

7:07am January 14, 2017

by Leah Donnella

Do people still believe the age-old notion that the next generation will deliver us from racism? Code Switch asked young and old(er). They rarely agreed on the answer.

Alain Locke is buried at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. He lies near many of the nation's early congressmen and next to the first director of the Smithsonian's Museum of African Art.

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Alain Locke, Whose Ashes Were Found In University Archives, Is Buried

10:02am September 16, 2014

by Gabrielle Emanuel

The author and philosopher is widely known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance. But it is not widely known that Locke, who died 60 years ago, was never buried.

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