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by Kenneth Braswell onApril 3, 2013
African Americans are still impoverished nearly 30 years after a controversial report inspired the phrase "blaming the victim," Kenneth Braswell writes at Ebony.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onJanuary 8, 2013
If you thought Tavis Smiley's campaign to get the issue on our national agenda would end with the election, think again.
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by Akiba Solomon onNovember 12, 2012
President Obama will be in the White House for four more years, but it was a tough road, marked especially by the war on women. Colorlines columnist Akiba Solomon shares what she's learned from this exhausting 2012 election.
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by Hillary Crosley onNovember 11, 2012
In an interview, the professor pulled no punches regarding the president's priorities.
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by Fredrick C. Harris onOctober 29, 2012
President Barack Obama's blackness shouldn't quiet African-American intellectuals' critiques of the POTUS, writes Fredrick C. Harris in the New York Times.
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October 12, 2012
As Biden and Ryan spar, a moderator shines, and yet too many Americans are ignored.
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by Steven Gray onApril 25, 2012
A new book by the duo tries to make poverty an issue for the 2012 election.
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