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Will Reform Help Black Immigrants?
(The Root) — Lowell Hawthorne’s immigrant tale isn’t exactly a secret. In 2003 Black Enterprise magazine named Hawthorne’s Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill Inc. one of the top 100 black-owned companies in the United States. And when Hawthorne, Golden Krust’s CEO, published a book late last year about his journey from new American to…
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No Sleep Until There's Justice for Trayvon
(The Root) — At 4 a.m. Sunday, when some of the nation’s major news organizations and conservative blogs remained on vigilant lookout for riots in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, a group of almost 200 people gathered in public spaces and private homes all over the country. Civil rights and social-justice activists down…
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White Juries and Black Victims
(The Root) — Gavel-to-gavel news coverage with a promise that viewers “won’t miss a moment.” A televised re-enactment of deadly events. A virtual army of lawyers, writers and jury consultants, analyzing every comment, every witness and nearly every moment of the George Zimmerman trial. The courtroom scene in Sanford, Fla., where Zimmerman faces second-degree-murder and…
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Blacks and College Loans: A Cloudy Picture
(The Root) — When Congress left town on Thursday — marking the start of its Fourth of July holiday — the nation’s elected officials left one piece of unfinished business especially critical to black America’s financial health and well-being: Congress failed to reach a compromise on the best way to structure the interest rates that…
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Black Women and HIV Rates: A Reprieve
(The Root) — Usually, when Quinn Gentry stops talking, the women in the audience spend a few seconds sitting, shell-shocked and silent. Around Atlanta, Gentry’s speeches — rife with the nitty-gritty and completely true stories of women infected with HIV collected over the course of her research career — are the stuff of legend. In…
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Voting Rights: Why Section 4 Mattered
(The Root) — In the second explicitly race-related ruling this week, which legal analysts and Supreme Court observers have described as far more restrained than had been expected from the conservative-dominated court, the Supreme Court invalidated an essential portion of the Voting Rights Act. The court’s 5-4 decision voided parts of Section 4, which provided…
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Easier Access to Plan B: Bad for Black Girls?
(The Root) — If Susannah Baruch were in charge of the nation’s biggest chain pharmacy stores, she’d issue orders today. They would read: Make room on store shelves, somewhere between the pregnancy tests and the condoms, for another form of effective, over-the-counter birth control. “That’s exactly where emergency contraception should be, between the condoms and the…
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How Kind Folks Are Hurting Job Seekers
For a person of color, finding a job may be harder, thanks to white folks doing favors for each other, writes Janell Ross on the Huffington Post. The reality: racism and racial inequality aren’t just supported by old ideas, unfounded group esteem or intentional efforts to mistreat others, said Nancy DiTomaso, author of the new…
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Kimani Gray's Funeral Highlights 'Stop and Frisk' Effects
On Saturday, the funeral of slain teenager Kimani Gray was held in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Janell Ross writes at the Huffington Post that his death is a reminder of the harmful effects of “stop and frisk.” No one talked about what it has done to alter the lives of the nearly 5 million people —…
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