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BREAKING: Top Black Scholar Gates Arrested in Massachusetts

Associated Press is reporting:

"Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation’s pre-eminent black scholar, is accusing Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested while trying to force open the locked front door of his home near Harvard University."

Posted at 2:27 PM, Jul 20, 2009 in Permalink | View Comments

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