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Interview: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Read an excerpt from Tyson's memoir The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist.
By William Schomaker
Published: January 24, 2005
While preparing the March "Interview," Astronomy contributing editor William Schomaker asked Neil deGrasse Tyson — director of New York City's Charles Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History — to talk about how other blacks criticized him for "wasting" his talents on science. Tyson responded with, "I cannot tell it better than how I wrote it for my memoir." Due to space constraints, we were unable to include the question and response in the magazine.
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