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Black Leaders: Their Words Lacked Fire 50 Years Later
Writing at the Washington Post, Courtland Milloy expresses disappointment with Saturday’s commemorative 50th anniversary March on Washington, calling it “a day filled with irony as speakers criticized the status quo that some black leaders have helped maintain.” Unlike the march in 1963, organized by socialist intellectuals A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, the updated version…
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First Lady Needs to Raise Her Game
The Washington Post’s Courtland Milloy wishes Michelle Obama would do serious work for the education of girls and skip the lighthearted television appearances. It’s time for first lady Michelle Obama to raise her game. Nothing wrong with telling kids to eat their peas or showing them how to Hula-Hoop. But after four years of focusing…
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Why Is the GOP Overwhelmingly White?
Worry over increasing government entitlement programs and a fear that they will lose the right to right to bear arms are just a few reasons Republican voters give for disliking today’s Democratic Party, Courtland Milloy writes in his Washington Post column. It’s deer hunting season in Virginia, and customers at Clark Brothers Guns in Warrenton…
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Denzel Washington, White Women and Turbulence
Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy analyzes the intent and interpretation of the actor’s kiss with Flight co-star Kelly Reilly. For his part, Washington has noted that Hollywood, historically, was reluctant to put interracial relationships on the big screen, that he has no problem with it but won’t do it just for the sake of getting…
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Consider the Case of the Angry White Woman
In his column at the Washington Post, Courtland Milloy revisits the case of Margaret Doyle, who was arrested last month after she had a meltdown inside the Virginia General Assembly during a protest against legislative assaults on women’s reproductive rights. He says that her anger is at odds with the stereotypical image of white women…
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The Redskins Struggle on the Field and in Court
In his column at the Washington Post, Courtland Milloy revisits the lawsuit against the Washington Redskins by plaintiffs seeking to change the team’s disparaging name. As the court battle enters its 20th year, Milloy says that the only thing that hasn’t changed is the team’s losing streak. Back in 1992, Washington reigned as Super Bowl…
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Black Women Hit Hard by Economic Crisis
In his column at the Washington Post, Courtland Milloy tackles a recent study by the National Women’s Law Center that says black women have lost more jobs during the recovery than they did during the recession. One reason is cuts in the public sector. After the health-care company where Linda Evans worked relocated outside the…
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We Can't Say the N-Word, but How Should We Write It?
Columnist Courtland Milloy writes “learn to detoxify the word by bringing it into the light, not letting it hide behind asterisks, dashes and ellipses. Context matters, too; talking about the word is different from being labeled with it.” Read more at The Washington Post
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When Health Care Gets Ugly
I know how the “tea party” people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their “Obama Plan White Slavery” signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon…
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