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Inside Nancy Pelosi’s Sisterhood With Delta Sigma Theta
She’s the most powerful woman in Congress, and they call themselves the “largest black female organization in the universe.” They agree on progressive issues from voting rights to fair wage legislation and on the national implications of what are often dismissed as women’s concerns. It’s no surprise that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and…
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AIDS Outreach Declined As Minority Cases Grew
Dr. Anthony Jones has been an HIV/AIDS specialist for more than 15 years. During that time the Oakland, Calif., primary care physician has become more and more discouraged as he has watched the AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay area become increasingly more of a problem for the African-American community. “We’re really at a…
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30 Years Into the AIDS Epidemic, Blacks Still Don’t Get Enough Treatment and Care
“All African Americans deserve lifesaving HIV prevention, testing, care, and treatment services.” That was the message of a statement issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday. It came with new data about a still-unmet need in the black community—more than 30 years after the first HIV and AIDS cases were identified—when it…
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California School Plans Fried Chicken and Watermelon Lunch For Black History Month
File under how not to celebrate Black History Month. Carondelet High School for Girls in Concord, California, is under fire after announcing a Black History Month lunch special menu of fried chicken, cornbread and watermelon. Students at the Northern California private school had been brainstorming ways to celebrate Black History Month. The lunch menu was…
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Piers Morgan Learns How Not to Interview Janet Mock
Transgender advocate and writer Janet Mock agreed to do her first mainstream interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan on Tuesday, to discuss her critically acclaimed book, Redefining Realness. It didn’t go so well. Criticism from Mock and the transgender community led to a second interview on Wednesday, which, in the eyes of many viewers, didn’t go…
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The GOP Gets in on Black History Month Advertising
Looks like the GOP wants in on Black History Month. Republican leaders have long noted the party’s inability to attract African-American voters. Some 93 percent of African Americans voted for Obama in the 2012 election, compared with 6 percent for the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney. In a move to bring more black Americans into the…
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Quote of the Day: W.E.B. Du Bois on Self-Hate
You can read this quote from the essay “The Crisis” (1920), and other quotes from W.E.B. Du Bois, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He…
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Stokely Carmichael’s Legacy Is Less Recognized Black History
Black History Month is the time to delve beyond the predictable roster of celebrated and increasingly mainstream African-American icons in order to spotlight an undiscovered country of political activists and activism. Going beyond the usual cast of characters celebrated during this time of year allows us to better understand the narrative of struggle that makes…
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How to Ask Your Man to Get an HIV Test
“I am ready to have sex with a guy I am dating, and I want to do the right thing and get tested [for HIV] first. I don’t know how to bring it up though. I tried to discuss getting tested with a man I dated before him. He was taking me to an appointment…
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Our Favorite Black Winter Olympians
Thanks to a deficit of racial diversity on the U.S. team, some jokingly write off the Winter Games as the “white Olympics.” But those observers must be forgetting these competitors of color, who, despite their relatively small numbers, made big impressions. As we count down to the Sochi Olympics’ opening ceremony on Friday, we remember…
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