Greg Johnson

In his 2008 book, “Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North,” released on the same day Barack Obama was elected the first African-American president of the United States, Thomas Sugrue says Obama appeared in only one sentence because he was not yet a central figure in civil rights.

Martha Farah says that in “young sciences” like psychology and neuroscience, “you can never be on intellectual autopilot.”

Opened since July, the Robert A.

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Asthma morbidity is disproportionately high in low-income, inner-city communities. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, African Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma, and African-American women have the highest asthma mortality rate of all groups.

Many Penn freshmen are getting what may be their first taste of independence, living miles or even oceans away from home.

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Since 1755, when two Mohawk Indian brothers became students at Penn, the University has opened its doors to people of every race, color, creed and sexual orientation.

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