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Aspen Ideas Festival: Are the founding fathers overrated?

Aspen Ideas Festival: Are the founding fathers overrated?

David Rubenstein asks, and tries to answer, the question, "Are the Founding Fathers overrated?" He says they were talented and courageous people, who deserve all the credit they get for putting the country together and creating a durable constitution... but they could not figure out a way to deal with America's biggest original defect: slavery.
by MPR News Staff

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Civil War lessons often depend on where the classroom is

Civil War lessons often depend on where the classroom is

The effect of inconsistent teaching may not be obvious until a related issue is thrust into the spotlight like this month's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the resulting backlash against Confederate symbols.
by The Associated Press

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Confederate statues are coming down at the University of Texas

Confederate statues are coming down at the University of Texas

President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and three other Confederate figures from a main area of campus. The removals should be complete by midmorning Monday.
by Doreen McCallister

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Oldest kids in class do better, even through college

Oldest kids in class do better, even through college

Children who start school at an older age do better than their younger classmates and have better odds of attending college and graduating from an elite institution. That's according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Affairs.

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Hamline picked to open racial healing center

Hamline picked to open racial healing center

The goal of the center is to make higher education institutions a place to take on issues of structural racism, racial hierarchy and white privilege.
by Peter Cox

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Error exposes private info on thousands of South Wash. Co. students

Leaders of the east metro school district apologized Thursday for a massive, accidental release of information on some 9,000 students in an email attachment sent to the parents of most district students.
by Solvejg Wastvedt

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Texas A&M cancels Sept. 11 'White Lives Matter' rally over safety concerns

Texas A&M cancels Sept. 11 'White Lives Matter' rally over safety concerns

The event's organizer posted a message online stating, "Today Charlottesville, Tomorrow Texas A&M." But the school says that after consulting with law enforcement, it decided to cancel the event.

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on race and class in America

Aspen Ideas Festival: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on race and class in America

The Harvard professor and documentary filmmaker explores the question: What would we tell Martin Luther King Jr. if he came back and wanted to know what had happened?
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