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Blog Noir: "Do Black Women's Reproductive Rights Even Matter?"
In the wake of the Tebow Super Bowl ad controversy, Womanist Musings wants to know where the outrage is over an ATL billboard At the same time that this battle is being waged, another is going quite unnoticed. An anti-abortion group in Atlanta is targeting Black women by putting up billboards stating that Black children…
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Read/React: Tom Tancredo on Obama Election
Tom Tancredo knows why Barack Obama was elected and he told the Tea Party Convention in Nashville last night The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and “the cult of multiculturalism,” asserting that Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test…
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Eric Holder and the Battle for New York
There are a great many people who do not wish to see Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried in New York City and Attorney General Eric Holder is in the middle of a fight trying to determine the best course of action. Those that oppose an in-city trial are vocal and spirited Greg Manning, whose wife, Laura,…
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Meet the 'Faces of America': Stephen Colbert
The Root’s editor-in-chief, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., is launching a new PBS show that builds on the success of his African-American Lives, a series that traced the ancestry of famous black Americans. His new series, Faces of America, uses the same potent combination of traditional genealogical research and advanced DNA techniques to explore the…
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Quick Hits: Unemployment Drops to 9.7%
According to The Washington Post, the January unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly as employers cut 20,000 jobs The unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly in January to 9.7 percent from 10 percent while employers shed 20,000 jobs, the government said Friday. The rate dropped because a survey of households found the number of employed Americans rose by 541,000,…
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Twit Pic: NBC's Cafeteria FAIL
Got this pic courtesy of Questlove of The Roots (@questlove on Twitter). We appreciate the effort NBC but…no.
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Quick Hits: Harry Gets an 'A' for Effort from NAACP
The NAACP graded Congress and gave Harry Reid an ‘A’ despite the recent kerfuffle The Nevada Democrat may have raised hackles with his pre-election comments describing President Obama as “light-skinned” with no “Negro accent,” but his voting record was something the 100-year-old civil rights group cheered in a new report card out later today. The…
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Read/React: "Is Gay the New Black?"
The Urban Politico asks a question likely to get people fired up. Check out an excerpt of their staff weighing in below The Janitor’s 2 Cents: I don’t think that the Gay struggle should be compared to Black struggle, but probably not for reasons that you might think. I understand the attraction of wanting to…
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Check It Out: Planned Parenthood Responds to Tebow Ad
Below is Planned Parenthood’s response to the Tebow ad set to air during the Super Bowl
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