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Remembering Black Atheists From History
In a blog entry at BET, Cord Jefferson says that members of a rising African-American atheist movement want to remind people that not all prominent black leaders and artists hailed from the church. He points to A. Philip Randolph and Langston Hughes as examples. When most Americans think of the civil rights movement and early…
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GLAAD Is Not Anti-Black
Blogging at BET.com, Cord Jefferson raises the specter that the GLAAD has come off as anti-black in its defense of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the smoldering aftermath of the Roland Martin Twitter flap. It was the tweet heard round the internet on Super Bowl Sunday. While some people were upset by pop…
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Confessions of a Formerly Angry Black Man
One of the few things I remember about one of the worst moments of my life is that I wanted to smash the driver’s-side window into the cabbie’s face. I remember that I didn’t want to hit him, but I did want to watch the glass scatter all over his body and into the street.…
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Odd Future's Odd Fan Base
I was introduced to the Los Angeles-based hip-hop group Odd Future (full name: Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) over craft beers at a friend’s house several months ago. This friend, a white guy in his late 20s, was in the midst of writing a feature about them for a major music magazine —…
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The RNC After Steele: Many Bridges to Build
On Friday, after two years in office, Michael Steele was beaten handily in his bid for a second term atop the Republican National Committee. Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, became the first African American to chair the RNC, occasionally with disastrous consequences: His verbal and behavioral gaffes were infamous and numerous — who…
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Michael Steele to Seek Re-Election at RNC
Despite many reports to the contrary, FrumForum has learned that Michael Steele, the gaffe-prone African-American chair of the Republican National Committee, will indeed seek re-election in January. According to an RNC executive close to the matter, it is “a certainty.” For days now, the most common speculation throughout the media was that Steele, the first…
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Check's Finally in the Mail for Black Farmers
At 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, before a crowd of about 150 lawmakers from both parties, African-American activists and Native American leaders, President Barack Obama brought to a close decades of government-sponsored racial injustice — or at least two chapters in a lengthy book. Standing in the White House’s South Court auditorium, the president signed into…
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Obama's Angry, Pragmatic Tax Address
Sounding more impassioned than he has since saying he was looking to “kick ass” during the BP oil spill, President Obama held a press conference at the White House today to talk about his controversial new tax package. Settled on with Republican leaders late yesterday, the tax plan will extend refundable tax credits (i.e. the…
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Top 20 News Stories of 2010
LeBron James went from being one of sports’ most celebrated figures to one of its most hated after he announced his departure from the Cleveland Cavaliers on an overhyped live television program that proved embarrassing for almost everyone involved. Cleveland fans now hate James, who joined the Miami Heat, and James himself has said that…
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