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Work Hard, Pay by Card?
With the economy on a steady but slow increase and employers now paying minimum-wage employees in pre-paid debit cards, banking fees can drain your account — especially if you don’t have sufficient funds. So how to rectify this problem? Writing for Slate, Matthew Yglesias suggests an alternate banking system that could move us into the future and allows for…
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Black American Pride: Rep. Terri Sewell
(The Root) — A lot has changed since 1903, when W.E.B. Du Bois described black Americans as possessing what he called a “double consciousness,” caught between a self-conception as Americans and as people of African descent. As he put it in The Souls of Black Folk: “The Negro ever feels his two-ness-an American, a Negro;…
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Wake Up: 20 Socially Conscious Songs
Music has the power to move us, heal us and inspire us. Here’s a list of 20 socially conscious songs, along with their performers, that address everything from civil rights to gang violence to safe sex. With roots based in African-American hymns, Jackson’s 1964 performance of “We Shall Overcome” helped make the tune one of…
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Interracial Family: 'We Are the 15 Percent'
The bigoted backlash over the insanely adorable Cheerios ad has died down. But photographer Michael David Murphy doesn’t want America to forget that mixed love is here to stay, the Huffington Post reports. In a quest to celebrate interracial families, Murphy and his wife launched We Are the 15 Percent, a blog that features pictures…
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Take a Look: Idris Elba as Mandela
We’ve seen him as a professional bank robber in Takers, a working-class father in Daddy’s Girls, a demented but brilliant detective in Luther — and of course as Stringer Bell in HBO’s The Wire — but we’ve never seen Idris Elba as a historical figure. Until now. Check out the new poster for the upcoming…
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Minority Kids With Autism Don't Receive Proper Care
Black and Latino children with autism and other disorders don’t have the same access to specialists and care as white children with the same diseases, a recent study in the journal Pediatrics suggests. According to CNN, minority children with autism are often misdiagnosed or not diagnosed as early as white children. Specifically, African-American children aren’t diagnosed until roughly…
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Cheerios Ad Parody Tells Haters to 'Eat It'
Not everyone was a fan of the adorable Cheerios commercial that featured a biracial family. In fact, Cheerios had to disable the comments feature on its YouTube page after the ad generated such a negative response. Our guess is that the racists that took issue with the commercial will also hate its spoof — which…
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Trayvon Martin Case: 'Trial of the Century'?
(The Root) — The Trayvon Martin case doesn’t involve a white-Bronco car chase, an NFL legend and a pretty blonde — just a black, unarmed teenage boy in a hoodie and a neighborhood-watch captain with a gun named George Zimmerman. But the second-degree-murder case against Zimmerman — who says he killed Trayvon in a gated…
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Minorities See Homeownership as a Goal
We call America “the melting pot” for its ethnic and cultural diversity. However, when it comes to the American dream, everyone seems to be in agreement. According to a recent study done by Better Homes and Garden Real Estate, polling of 400 African Americans, whites and Hispanics showed that each ethnic group valued homeownership and…
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New Orleans Mother's Day Victim Gets Birthday Bash
Ka’Nard Allen will get to spend his 11th birthday living in the lap of luxury after being injured by gunfire at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, according to Reuters. After hearing that Ka’Nard wanted to spend his birthday swimming in a hotel pool, Tod Chambers, general manager of the French Quarter’s historic Roosevelt New…
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