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June 18, 2008

The Seven Percent Solution?

Maria Laurino
Spike Lee and John Turturro in "Do the Right Thing"

DNA testing adds new complexities to the question about physical similarities between African-Americans and Italian-Americans.

June 11, 2008

Barack Obama Mamma

Maria Laurino
Photo by Marco From Houston, Flickr.com
Can the Old World embrace the New?

My eighty-six-year-old Italian-American mother enthusiastically supports Barack Obama. Could a majority of Italian-Americans back the African-American presumptive Democratic...