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Allen West to Obama: Stop Bragging
Why so many Americans can’t access healthy food: In America, it’s not just eating well that’s solely for the rich. Increasingly, it seems, eating healthfully is also something only the well-off can do. That’s in part because the country’s food system is set up to produce exactly that outcome, says Tracie McMillan, who explores how…
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Is Mormonism Still Racist?
Randy Bott, a professor of religion at Brigham Young University, in a Washington Post piece by Jason Horowitz, said that “God has always been discriminatory.” His comments have caused a stir (to put it mildly). Slate’s Max Merry Mueller points out that this wouldn’t have been so significant if not for Mormonism’s complicated and troubling…
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Spencer and Shepherd: We're Not the Same Person
Apparently Octavia Spencer and Sherri Shepherd have been confused for each other so many times that Spencer took to Twitter this week to clear things up once and for all. From Clutch magazine: On Thursday’s episode of The View, Sherri Shepherd explained how many fellow celebrities, including Bo Derek and John Corbett, mistakenly congratulated her for her…
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Crazy Talk: Principal Says Gay Kids Go to Hell
There were so many things that Haywood High School Principal Dorothy Bond could have talked about to her Brownsville, Tenn., students. There’s academic success, athletics and possibilities for career and college. Maybe she could have even cautioned against bullying. Instead, at a recent meeting with students, she allegedly opted to be the bully herself, pointing…
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Environmental Justice: Why It's a Black Thing
On Sunday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will deliver a sermon at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., to commemorate the 47th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. What do clean air and water have to do with issues that surrounded one of the most pivotal events of the civil rights movement? A lot,…
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Obama's Day, March 2: Visiting Service Members
Office of the Press SecretaryDAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORFRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press.Later, the President and the Vice President will meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office. This…
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Jeremy Lin's Triumph Over Stereotype Threat
Time contributor and author Touré examines race and gender through the lens of basketball phenomenon Jeremy Lin’s success. He discusses how hard low expectations based on our race or gender can be to conquer. One of my favorite parts of the Jeremy Lin story is his victory over stereotype threat. Stereotype threat is the idea…
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Obama: I Knew Jeremy Lin First
In an interview with ESPN’s Bill Simmons, President Barack Obama claims he was among the first on the Jeremy Lin bandwagon and explains that, despite being busy, he’s able to keep up with the star New York Knicks player because he forgoes network and cable news and watches Sports Center while working out in the…
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Obama's Day, March 1: Campaigning in the Big Apple
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTHURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press.Later in the morning, the President will travel to Nashua, New Hampshire. The departure from the South Lawn and the…
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NAACP Commends Coal Plant Closing
Last year the NAACP ranked Chicago’s Fisk Generating Station and Crawford Generating Station as two of the nation’s worst environmental-justice offenders. So today the organization is praising an agreement that will lead to the closure of the coal plants years earlier than expected. President and CEO Ben Jealous says they were “literally choking some of…
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