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3 High-Profile Cases of Black Men Killed by Police, Still No Arrests—Why?
We’ve heard from the St. Louis County grand jury. And unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of days, you know the result: Jurors returned a “no true bill” decision or, put simply, no indictment of Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing Michael Brown. So many of…
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Picking on the Obama Girls Isn’t Smart, Especially if You Work for a GOP Congressman
Editor’s note: Elizabeth Lauten resigned on Monday. Blame the alcohol in the eggnog, delirium from too much stuffing or simply bad judgment for causing Elizabeth Lauten, the communications director for Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.), to flip out on Facebook over the first daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama. After reading an article linked on Facebook from…
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Ray Rice Wins Appeal, Suspension Overturned
Ray Rice is free to return to the NFL after an arbitrator Friday vacated his indefinite suspension by the league for hitting his then-fiancee and now wife, Janay Palmer Rice, in a hotel elevator, the Associated Press writes. The former Baltimore Ravens running back is now a free agent and “eligible to play upon signing…
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The Root TV: What Nigerians Thought About #BringBackOurGirls and Americans Wanting to Help
From the vantage point of Nigerians, it must have been an overwhelming experience to go from being a nation with a decent amount of obscurity to being at the center of a worldwide social media campaign in just a matter of days. That’s what happened in April, when insurgents from the Boko Haram terrorist group…
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Calls for Shoppers to Boycott Black Friday Shopping
Activists, celebrities and some clergy are urging a protest against the Michael Brown grand jury decision by refusing to shop on Black Friday. The message has been spreading via social media under the hashtags BlackOutBlackFriday and #HandsUpDontSpend, among others. Will you participate in this action?
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Labor Activists Will Protest in Front of Several Wal-Mart Locations on Black Friday
Wal-Mart—America’s largest retailer—will be facing a lot of hurdles on Black Friday. Not only is there a robust social media campaign under way that is encouraging black Americans to boycott major businesses as a way to protest the Ferguson, Mo., grand jury verdict, but Al-Jazeera is also reporting that OUR Walmart—the “union-backed labor campaign” consisting of…
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Seeking Proof of Native American Roots?
Editor’s note: This column was originally published March 29, 2013. One of the most common types of questions I get from readers is about tracing Native American ancestry. As I have written before, in the case of African Americans, most have very little measurable Native American ancestry, and as 23andMe.com’s Senior Research Director Joanna Mountain…
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Pastor Reportedly Refuses to Bury 93-Year-Old Woman Who Hadn’t Paid Her Church Dues
A Houston pastor faces criticism after refusing to bury a 93-year-old woman who had been a member of his church for more than 50 years, reports KRIV. Barbara Day says that she feels insulted by the way the pastor, Walter F. Houston, responded to her request to bury her mother, Olivia Blair. “It was like…
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Sharpton: Public Outrage Was Exacerbated by Prosecutor’s ‘Frontal Attack’ on Michael Brown’s Character
Two days after a grand jury refused to indict Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, Brown’s parents appeared with the Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem headquarters of National Action Network, the civil rights organization founded by Sharpton in 1991. They remain determined to keep the legacy…
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Hispanic and Arab Americans Want Their Own Racial Categories on the 2020 Census
Civil rights groups are on different pages about the proposed changes that census officials might make to the racial and ethnic categories that appear on the 2020 census. According to Al-Jazeera, the changes are meant to reconcile the concerns of Hispanic and Arab American groups that don’t feel as if the current slate of racial…
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