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Few Kids of Color at NYC Top Schools
Some of New York’s public middle schools are stellar, but few children of color are able to take advantage of those educational opportunities. For example, according to the Daily News, only 17 percent of the 569 students at Manhattan’s Anderson School for gifted children are of color. The revelation comes on the heels of an…
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Civil Rights Activist Lawrence Guyot Dies
Civil rights activist and lawyer Lawrence Guyot, who worked beside Fannie Lou Hamer and Medgar Evers, passed away on Nov. 23 at his home in Mount Rainier, Md., reports the Washington Post. Born in Pass Christian, Miss., Guyot graduated from Tougaloo College and began working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1962. He was…
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Egyptian President's Moves Spark New Protests
In Egypt, people are protesting President Mohamed Morsi‘s move to grant himself powers to overrule challengers. Al Jazeera reports that Morsi’s new constitutional decree will also allow him to fire the prosecutor general and retry former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. At a Judges’ Club press conference on Saturday, Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud, the former prosecutor general, said…
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Halle Berry's Beaux Fight on Thanksgiving
It wasn’t a happy Thanksgiving for everyone, especially at the Hollywood home of actress Halle Berry. On Thursday, Gabriel Aubry, Berry’s ex-boyfriend and father to their 4-year-old daughter, Nahla, got into a fight with Berry’s fiancé, French actor Olivier Martinez, and both men we taken to the hospital, reports People. “Gabriel attacked Olivier and Olivier…
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Brazil Promotes Black Supreme Court Judge
Though half of Brazilians identify themselves as being of African descent, the country only swore in their first black Supreme Court judge president this week. On Thursday, Joaquim Barbosa, 58, was officially promoted to president of the South American country’s Supreme Court, the apex of a journey that began in 2003 when he joined the…
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Black Leaders Make Obama Action Lists
Americans have given President Obama a second term, and now African-American leaders who encouraged voter turnout are looking for leverage. From job programs that combat high black unemployment to calling for fiscal-cliff action that doesn’t burden middle- to low-income Americans, activists like Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous are seeking solutions, reports the…
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Space Expert: Obama Didn't End NASA
(The Root) — There are only a handful of experts who can discuss stars and galaxies in a way that lay people can easily understand. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of them. As the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York’s American Museum of Natural History, Tyson recently received the honor of becoming…
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Cornel West: Obama a 'Republican in Blackface'
Cornel West has made it clear that he feels that President Obama should be more proactive in tackling issues like poverty and the prison-industrial complex. Some African Americans see the professor’s views as divisive, while others say he’s speaking truth to power. Recently, in an interview with Democracy Now, West and Tavis Smiley were asked…
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MHP: Dear John Husted
President Obama won on Nov. 6, despite GOP voter-suppression tactics. In Ohio, Secretary of State John Husted used the full force of his power to restrict early voting and voting hours. But in spite of his efforts, African Americans showed up in lines that snaked down streets to cast their ballots — and adhere to…
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Delfonics Singer Major Harris Is Dead
On Friday, singer Major Harris, a member of the Delfonics, died of congestive heart and lung failure. He was 65. According to the Associated Press, the “Philadelphia Sound” singer was born in Richmond, Va. Music ran in his family, where his parents were a part of their church choir. Harris joined the Delfonics in the…
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