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Bernard Benedict James, aerospace engineer and Black WWII veteran, dies at 101

LOS ANGELES — Bernard Benedict James sat his young children down in the family living room decades ago in their La Mirada home, where he’d written a set of math equations on a blackboard.

Los Angeles Times

For the First Time, Supreme Court Splits 5-4 Along Gender Lines

The Court denied the Biden's request for a stay of a lower court injunction against new immigration enforcement guidelines.

Reason

Emerald heart: a guide to Ireland’s six national parks

Fringing remote islands and the wild Atlantic coast, steeped in legend and home to exotic flora, these protected areas are a hiker’s paradise

The Guardian - UK

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Supreme Court move allows Jackson to take part in race case

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions

The Independent UK

Blackhawks form partnership with Sac and Fox Nation that includes language preservation and scholarships — but name concerns still linger

CHICAGO — Robert Williamson didn’t know what to make of the Chicago Blackhawks at first.

Chicago Tribune

'It' producer Dan Lin sets up creator accelerator for racial equity in Hollywood

LOS ANGELES — In the late 1990s, Dan Lin was a 25-year-old Harvard MBA student with no Hollywood connections when he joined Warner Bros. as an intern under film executive Lorenzo DiBonaventura.

Los Angeles Times

Biden must cancel all student loan debt, including for those with graduate degrees

Politicians argue that canceling student debt will mainly benefit doctors and lawyers. But it is first-generation graduates of color who are struggling to make payments

The Guardian - US

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CRISPR, 10 Years On: Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life

Ten years ago this week, Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues published the results of a test-tube experiment on bacterial genes. When the study came out in the journal Science on June 28, 2012, it did not make headline news. In fact, over the next few weeks, it did not make…

Asharq Al-Awsat

World debating champion Bo Seo believes in the power of disagreement — and good arguments

Bo Seo is an expert in how to argue — and believes the same techniques that work on the debating stage can also help in settings as varied as work and personal relationships.

ABC News

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer joining Harvard law faculty

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is getting a different title: professor

The Independent UK

The Gray Man movie review: Netflix’s most expensive movie yet is a hoot

Ryan Gosling’s laconic assassin squares up to Chris Evan’s smug sociopath and it’s just as much fun as you’d expect

Evening Standard

Stephen Carter Makes the Case for Barring the Bar Exam

The famous columnist and Yale Law School professor points out that the case made against other standardized tests, such as the LSAT, also applies to bar exams.

Reason

She was an ice skating Olympic hopeful who wound up on heroin and in jail. Now she’s taking on the prison system

Author Keri Blakinger went from star athlete to jailed heroin addict and social justice crusader. She speaks to Melissa Whitworth about her journey and what prison taught her about America’s broken system

The Independent UK

‘First modern novel – oldest language’: Sanskrit translation of Don Quixote rescued from oblivion

Translated by two Kashmiri pandits from an C18th English translation in the 1930s, unique work lay forgotten in a Harvard University library

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Inverse

Cosmic phenomenon predicted by Einstein could shatter physics as we know it

In a recent study, a team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Harvard University has proposed a way where gravitational waves could be used to search for ultralight bosons around rotating black holes.

The Independent UK

Harvard law professor predicts indictment of Donald Trump is coming

Garland previously pledged to follow evidence wherever it leads

The Guardian - AU

Resentment, acceptance, gratitude: the paradox facing Australian children of ‘tiger’ parents

For many Asian Australians, growing up means reckoning with not only their childhood but their parents’ past

Axios

Supreme Court's next term could be just as contentious

With a 6-3 conservative majority, the next term — which is set to start in October — could be just as contentious as this year's.

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Harvard affirmative action, gay rights cases are next up at Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court reshaped the legal landscape in dramatic ways in the past few months, and it may just be getting started.

Tribune News Service

Housing slump would place greatest stress on Black, Hispanic residents

If the United States enters a recession and housing prices stagnate or fall, homeowners in parts of California, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana and New Jersey are most at risk of owing more than their houses are worth or losing their homes to foreclosure, according to a new analysis.

Newsroom.co.nz

Medicinal cannabis company gets good news in tough market

Medicinal cannabis company Ora Pharm has just won nearly $3m in grants and contracts. But being a cannabis entrepreneur is far from the high life.

Inverse

You need to watch David Fincher's most important techno-thriller before it leaves Netflix this week

In 2010, 'The Social Network' arrived at just the right time, revealing how social media got here and where it was headed.

The Independent UK

Harvard returns Standing Bear's tomahawk to Nebraska tribe

Harvard has returned a tomahawk once owned by a pioneering Native American civil rights leader to his tribe

The Independent UK

Court: Harvard can be sued for distress over slave photos

A Connecticut woman who says she's descended from slaves shown in widely published, historical photos owned by Harvard University can sue the school for emotional distress

Reason

Title IX's 50th Anniversary Is a Dark Day for Due Process on Campus

The Biden administration just proposed new rules that would undermine basic fairness in college sexual misconduct disputes.

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