How African Americans & Hispanics View Abortion

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From CNN.com:

"A large majority of black and Hispanic Americans identify as both “pro-life” and “pro-choice” when it comes to abortion, according to a survey released Thursday. The poll finds that both minority groups are more likely than Americans in general to embrace or to reject both labels.

Large majorities of African-Americans identify both as “pro-life” (71%) and “pro-choice” (75%), according to a Public Religion Research Institute survey released Thursday. Hispanic Americans harbor similarly complex views on abortion, with 77% identifying as “pro-life” and 72% calling themselves as “pro-choice.”

The survey found that 52% of black Americans and 47% of Hispanic Americans acknowledge that they embrace or reject both labels, proportions that are higher than those for Americans overall. Thirty seven percent of all Americans embrace both labels or neither label.

The numbers show that most people see the pro-life and pro-choice identifiers through their own unique prisms, says Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute.

“Most people live outside the culture war and policy wonk bubble,” Jones says. “I think for those folks who make our living following these things, these words are brands, they are movement brands, but in the general public, these words function in a much broader way.”

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Who Are The 20 Most Influential Americans Ever?

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TIME Magazine has come up with what it feels are the twenty most influential Americans of all-time.

Here is its list:

1. George Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Sacagawea, Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
6. Abraham Lincoln
7. Sitting Bull
8. Alexander Graham Bell
9. Thomas Edison
10. Henry Ford
11. Orville & Wilbur Wright
13. Margaret Sanger
14. Albert Einstein
15. Franklin D. Roosevelt
16. Louis Armstrong
17. James Watson
18. Martin Luther King, Jr.
19. Muhammad Ali
20. Steve Jobs

Overall, I think this is a good list (although there are a few entries I might disagree with). From my perspective, some other people that immediately come to mind that could have been included are Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan B. Anthony, Jackie Robinson, Billy Graham and John F. Kennedy.

What are your thoughts? Who might you have included?

What Are The Top 20 Universities In The World?

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According to The Guardian, 14 of the top 20 universities in the world are located in the United States. Here are the world's top 20 most reputable universities:

1. Harvard University, United States

2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

3. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

4. Stanford University, United States

5. University of California, Berkeley, United States

6. University of Oxford, United Kingdom

7. Princeton University, United States

8. University of Tokyo, Japan

9. University of California, Los Angeles, United States

10. Yale University, United States

11. California Institute of Technology, United States

12. University of Michigan, United States

13. Imperial College London, United Kingdom

14. University of Chicago, United States

15. Columbia University, United States

16. Cornell University, United States

17. University of Toronto, Canada

18. Johns Hopkins University, United States

19. University of Pennsylvania, United States

20. Kyoto University, Japan

To see the complete list of the world's top 100 universities please click here.

(h/t to my friend Trae for the link.)