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- Editorial: Monday Briefing
Cooking up controversyWe have to admit, we were not familiar with Paula Deen or her television show before the controversy recently erupted over the celebrity cook (if there really is such a thing as a "celebrity cook," there's another sign of the decline of western civilization) allegedly using a racist slur.The controversy resulted in the network that aired her cooking show since 2002 not ...
June 24, 2013 - Amarillo Globe-News - Martin Bernal, 'Black Athena' author and scholar, dies at 76
Martin Bernal, whose three-volume work "Black Athena" ignited an academic debate by arguing that the African and Semitic lineage of Western civilization had been scrubbed from the record of ancient Greece by 18th- and 19th-century historians steeped in the racism of their times, died June 9 in Cambridge, England. He was 76.
June 23, 2013 - Pioneer Press - Martin Bernal, ‘Black Athena’ Scholar, Dies at 76
Mr. Bernal’s work ignited a debate by arguing that the African and Semitic lineage of Western civilization had been scrubbed from the record of ancient Greece by 18th- and 19th-century historians.
June 22, 2013 - New York Times