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A More Diverse Medical Profession Means Better Care for a Diverse America
If there was any doubt left that the Obama era didn’t usher in a postracial society, it was erased in the last few weeks by the spectacle that was the Donald Sterling affair. It probably doesn’t surprise anyone at this point that we have not yet reached the promised land of equality and racial blindness…
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Miles Davis Way Unveiled in New York City
On May 26, the day that would have been his 88th birthday, the iconic trumpeter Miles Davis was honored in New York City with the unveiling of a street, Miles Davis Way, on the West 77th Street block where he lived in Manhattan from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. “The contribution he made to…
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The Black Roots of Memorial Day
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. 81: What was “Freedom’s Fort,”…
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Environmental Justice Requires MLK’s Fierce Urgency of Now
More than 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about race in America and invoked the imagery of this nation’s natural beauty to inspire and encourage collective action and to implore our sense of justice to “roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Five years later, in 1968, just hours…
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Can We Please Get Some Black Gay Male Couples on TV?
My television raised me. I’m not criticizing my mom here. A single mother, she worked tirelessly to give her only son whatever he wanted and needed, and that meant she was busy. Often, the TV stood in for both of my parents. I began to look to it for anything I needed to know about…
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Tight Bathing Suit? Check. Welcome to Memorial Day!
Memorial Day is an unofficial marker that the year is almost half over, that the bathing suit you swore you would fit into come summertime still doesn’t fit, and that your New Year’s resolution to work out every day … well, yeah, see above-mentioned bathing suit. But don’t let the gloomy blues of life get…
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Sharpton Hits NYPD Over Teen Reportedly Shoved Through Window
The Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday defended a 14-year-old Bronx, N.Y., boy who reportedly talked so much trash after his arrest on an assault charge that a New York Police Department sergeant allegedly pushed him, causing him to fall through a storefront window, the Daily News reports. Speaking at a news conference at his National…
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Watch: Ben Carson Slams Administration Over Veterans Scandal
The widening scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs signals that the government is incapable of managing the nation’s vast health care system, retired neurosurgeon-turned-GOP icon Ben Carson told Fox News Saturday. Carson, a Fox News contributor, joins a growing chorus of critics of the Obama administration over recently surfaced problems at veterans hospitals, including…
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Houston Unveils MLK Memorial Statue, Ending Decades of Drama
Houston elected officials, civil rights leaders and residents gathered on Saturday to attend the unveiling of a bronze statue of Martin Luther King Jr., ending decades of drama over its location and lack of funds to complete it, according to KHOU. A large crowd, including Martin Luther King III, was on hand for the unveiling…
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Obama: US Must Work Harder for Veterans
During his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, President Barack Obama said that Memorial Day is a time to remember military heroes whose sacrifices helped build the country. He also made a link between the holiday and the bubbling scandal over charges of misconduct at Veterans Affairs hospitals. He said the nation must do more…
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