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Single black female BA seeks
educated husband: Race, assortative mating and
inequality
Brookings, April 15, Ghanadot -
Race is a factor in patterns of assortative mating.
Black women face more difficult �marriage markets� than
white women..... Black women have the lowest rates of
�marrying out� across race lines, in part because of
racist attitudes to inter-marriage. Just 49 percent of
college-educated black women marry a well-educated man
(i.e., with at least some post-secondary education),
compared to 84 percent of college-educated white women........More |
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Malawi to evacuate citizens
from South Africa
BBC, April 16, Ghanadot - Malawi says it will
repatriate its nationals from South Africa, following an
upsurge in xenophobic violence....At least five
foreigners, including a 14-year-old boy, have been
killed in attacks in South Africa's coastal city of
Durban since last week........More
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South Africa's ageing white
mercenaries who helped turn tide on Boko Haram
Guardian, April 16, Ghanadot - South Africa has a
chequered history of exporting soldiers of fortune. Most
belong to a generation of soldiers who felt cast aside
when the Berlin Wall fell, Nelson Mandela was released
and South Africa�s military needs were drastically
reduced. Robbed of the only role they were trained for
and unable to find alternative work, they felt alienated
under a black government and pursued private wars to put
bread on the table........More
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Kenyan police
chief's misuse of plane fuels anger over
Garissa massacre
GuardianUK, April 15, Ghanadot -
Criticism of the Kenyan authorities� slow
response to the Garissa massacre has reached
new heights after a police chief admitted
that a plane meant to transport commandos to
the scene was instead being used to fly his
family back from holiday on the coast..... .More
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