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Alysa Stanton, First Black Female Rabbi, to Be Replaced
Alysa Stanton, the first African American female rabbi, will step down as the leader of Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, N.C., this summer. After less than two years, the congregation decided that it would not renew her contract. “We felt Rabbi Stanton has brought a lot of gifts to the congregation, but we felt she wasn’t a…
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Job Lead: Senior Finance Manager for Microsoft
Microsoft is looking for a senior finance manager in its Redmond, Wash., office. Responsibilities include producing tight, concise overviews of quarterly RPS performance that are visible at the highest levels of the division and company. This individual also plays a key role coordinating across numerous MOD and STB teams, as well as consolidating LRP and…
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Updated: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Critical Condition
Updated Jan. 9: Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, is in critical condition after a gunman’s bullet passed through her brain. She is responding to doctors’ commands, and they have “guarded optimism” that she will survive. Unfortunately, six others did not survive the melee when a gunman opened fire during a meeting with constituents…
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Limbaugh Says Obama Wouldn't Have Been Elected If He Weren't Black
On his Friday radio show, Rush Limbaugh dives into yet another race conversation. In this snippet, he goes back to the meme that President Barack Obama isn’t qualified to be president. “[For] the media, the Democrat adults and the establishment, the Clinton years were their Nirvana. And if Obama had not been African American, he…
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Ava DuVernay Forms African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement
Ava DuVernay, one of the inductees into The Root 100 last year, hopes to spread the distribution of black-themed films with her new organization, African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement. In March, black film festivals based in New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle and Los Angeles will be the first backers of this movement. Her new film,…
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Video: Uncle Beats Nephew for Claiming to Be a Thug on Facebook
Apparently, the young man in the video below has been perpetrating on Facebook. He claims he’s a thug and that he’s “dropping bodies on the block.” But his uncle isn’t having it. From AOL Black Voices: “This is my f—-ing nephew right here,” he says as he points the belt at the boy. “He ain’t…
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Omaha, Neb., School Shooting: Teen Leaves Family and Friends a Facebook Post
Parents and friends are saying that they can’t make sense of why Robert Butler Jr. would open fire at his Omaha, Neb., high school. But Butler, 17, said he was having a hard time at school and that the recent move to Omaha had changed him. “Everybody that used to know me I’m [sorry] but…
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Google Hires Policy Manager for Africa
Ory Okolloh, co-founder of Ushahidi, a crisis-mapping website in Kenya, has been hired as Google’s policy manager for Africa. Her job will be based in Johannesburg, South Africa. If you’re on Twitter, you may know Okolloh as @kenyanpundit. From her website: The role will involve developing policy/strategies on a number of areas of relevance to…
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William Daley to Be Obama's New Chief of Staff
The Washington Post reports that former Commerce Secretary William Daley will be named Obama’s new chief of staff at a 2:30 p.m. EST announcement today. He will replace interim Chief of Staff Pete Rouse, who took over for Rahm Emanuel, a candidate in the Chicago mayoral race. This week seems to be a week full…
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Tom Joyner Joins Prepaid-Card Business
The Fly Jock is now backing his own prepaid debit card. Calling it the Reach card, he says that unlike other prepaid cards with lots of undisclosed fees, his card has only three fees: a $9.95 activation fee, an $8.95 monthly fee and a $2.50 ATM fee, totaling about $120 a year for most users.…
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