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Michelle Obama’s Food Fight: Will She Back Down Again?
The News: The House Appropriations Committee passed a measure to roll back school-nutrition guidelines central to Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign against the epidemic of overweight and obese children. As part of a Republican-authored $21 billion agriculture-spending bill, schools would be allowed to opt out of requirements for food served in the federal free or reduced-lunch…
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Was History’s Richest Person Black?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 82: Who was history’s wealthiest…
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Why Women Can’t Hide From Men
On Memorial Day, we had four encounters with men. We: three women—my mother, my daughter and I—walking near Washington Circle Park, hungry after checking out of the hotel in Washington, D.C., where I’d booked a one-night stay. They: everywhere. The first man did not ask for money; the sign propped against him on the sidewalk…
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Justin Bieber Tells N-Word Joke on Video
TMZ on Sunday posted a video of a 15-year-old Justin Bieber, who is now 20, telling a racist joke to friends. “Why are black people afraid of chain saws?” he asks in the video that first surfaced Sunday on a British pay site, TMZ reports. His punchline: “Run n—ger,” repeatedly saying the n-word while laughing.…
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District Suspends White Teacher Over Blackface Lesson
A Michigan community is rallying behind a teacher who was suspended after showing a video of white entertainers in blackface during an African-American history lesson, according to the Monroe News. The white teacher, Alan Barron, 59, showed his Monroe Middle School eighth-grade class a video of how white people used blackface to imitate African Americans…
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V. Stiviano Mocks Blacks in Reality TV Video
Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling’s world was turned upside down last month when an audio recording surfaced of him making racist remarks to his companion V. Stiviano. The comments prompted the NBA to ban him for life and force him to sell the team. Now it appears that turnabout is fairplay after Stiviano herself…
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6 Cleveland Police Officers Indicted in Shooting Deaths of 2 Unarmed Suspects
A grand jury has indicted six Cleveland police officers in the deaths of two unarmed suspects, who were killed in a spray of 137 bullets after a wild car chase that ended in a schoolyard, the Associated Press reports. The indictment on Friday is part of a far-reaching federal investigation into “the Cleveland Police Department’s…
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The Annoyingly Effective Ways African and Caribbean Parents Get Their Kids to Get A’s
Social media have been inundated with news reports about those brilliant high school students who gained admission to a boatload of Ivy League schools. That many of them are first-generation black Americans (children whose parents come from countries in Africa or the Caribbean) made headlines, too. Not to mention that “Tiger Mom” Amy Chua put…
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Black Men Urge Obama to Add Females to My Brother’s Keeper
Doctors, lawyers, security guards and professors are among more than 200 African-American men who signed an open letter to President Barack Obama urging him to include women and girls in his far-reaching My Brother’s Keeper initiative. The letter at African American Policy Forum comes on the heels of an announcement Friday by the president that…
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When a ‘Gentleman’ Is Linked to Mass Murder
A gentleman. A mass murderer. Same thing? Now let me explain. Picture this: A young man parks his car in a mall parking lot. He gets out and heads toward the mall entrance. As he approaches the door, out of the corner of his eye, he sees a young woman walking in the same direction.…
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