WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama plans a White House meeting Thursday over beers with a professor and a Cambridge, Mass., officer, the president's spokesman said.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 28 (UPI) -- Ex-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could have defused the incident that led to his arrest.
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has not decided whether the arrest of a black Harvard professor was a case of racial profiling, his spokesman said Sunday.
WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he would have a beer at the White House with President Obama and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him.
WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Friday clarified his comments on the arrest of a black professor, saying he should have been more careful in choosing his words.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 24 (UPI) -- Recordings made during the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in Cambridge, Mass., may be made public after being reviewed, police say.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 21 (UPI) -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. demanded an apology Tuesday from police who arrested the African-American scholar as he tried to get into his Cambridge, Mass., home.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A Harvard University professor has started a company that uses customer's DNA to trace their ancestry.
MADISON, Wis., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- African-American literature scholar, Nellie Y. McKay, who co-edited the "Norton Anthology of African American Literature," has died in Madison, Wis. McKay was chairwoman of the Afro-American studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and s
LOS ANGELES, July 19 (UPI) -- PBS, the U.S. public television network, has announced the production of a four-hour documentary called "African-American Lives."
