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May 9, 2010
Black colleges and black stars get special attention at commencements this month.
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by Sherrilyn A. Ifill onJanuary 24, 2010
The Supreme Court's recklessness in the corporate speech case is in sharp contrast to another decision it issued the same day.
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by Sherrilyn A. Ifill onAugust 7, 2009
All the conversations we had about race this summer have not turned out well.
DAVID SWERDLICK: Sotomayor's High-Tech Cinching
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August 6, 2009
The U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the next member of the U.S. Supreme Court, and it’s first Latina Justice by a vote of 68-31.
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August 6, 2009
It's a truly sad state of (GOP) affairs when an underqualified woman of color uses all her empathetic ethnic guile to ascend to the highest bench in the land...
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July 17, 2009
This week on The Confab: A chatty review of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. After its convention, how engaged and willing to act is the NAACP? What's the price tag on Obama's health care plan? Join The Root's deputy editor Terence Samuel as he talks with Washington reporter Dayo Olopade and contributor to The Root Sherrilyn A. Ifill.
* Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.
* Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.
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by Benjamin Todd Jealous onJuly 10, 2009
Will Republicans continue to advance divisive politics rooted in America’s sad history of racism and exclusion? Or can they rise to meet the challenges of 21st-century, multicultural America with dignity and honor?
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June 30, 2009
Justice Sotomayor's ruling overturned. But why do I have mixed feelings about it? Is the firefighter's exam THAT biased?
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by Associated Press onJune 29, 2009
The Supreme Court overturns ruling backed by Sotomayor.
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June 29, 2009
The justices ruled 5-4 in the New Haven firefighters' case...
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