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Obamacare Is a Victory for African Americans
The health and social benefits of Obamacare are expected to be exponential for African Americans, Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes at his Hutchinson Report News blog. So efforts by House Republicans to block implementation of the law for a year are emblematic of the party’s extensive race problems. Studies have found that when blacks do receive…
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Watch This: Jan Brewer Gets Tongue-Tied Over 'Tuskegee'
In an odd and embarrassing moment, Arizona’s feisty Republican Gov. Jan Brewer struggled to pronounce “Tuskegee” during a ceremony to honor the legendary black fighter pilots, who were the focus of last year’s highly publicized Hollywood release, Red Tails. Talking Points Memo reports that Local Fox TV affiliate KSAZ caught Brewer’s embarrassing struggle with the…
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NY Bakery: 'I Can't Hire You Because You're Black'
A bakery in Queens, N.Y., reportedly has been hit with $25,000 in fines and penalties in a discrimination case. ” ‘I can’t hire you because you’re black,’ ” Jamilah DaCosta, 25, said she was told when she applied for a job in October 2011 as a counter clerk at Framboise Patisserie in Middle Village, Queens,…
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NY Post's Epic Fail on Stop and Frisk
(The Root) — If you’ve ever been pulled over by an officer, taken an introduction to philosophy course or had a no-excuses parent, you know there are some strategies that never fly when you are debating. There are certain types of reasoning for rebuttal that just don’t work. Enter the New York Post story by…
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Quote of the Day: Tevis Williams on Dance
Read about African-American contributions to dance here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Why Amy Winehouse Did Not Need to Twerk
In an explicit rebuke of Miley Cyrus’ failed MTV Music Video Awards twerking performance, Amy Linden writes an evocative piece at Ebony about Amy Winehouse. The late pop star, Linden says, was more intuitively tuned into black soul than any other white pop artist to arrive in her wake, which is why she didn’t resort…
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'Welfare Queen' Morphs Into 'Surfer Dude'
In the Las Vegas Sun, Clarence Page debunks the Republican Party’s perception that blacks are the primary recipients of food stamps, saying, “a California surfer dude has become the new ‘welfare queen.’ ” Republicans who voted last week to cut food stamp benefits represent most of the counties that experienced the largest growth in food…
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The Republican Caucus Is Full of Captain Ahabs
In the New York Times, Charles M. Blow equates the Republican Party’s efforts to stall President Obama’s economic progress to Herman Melville’s iconic revenge-seeking Captain Ahab, who engaged in a failed pursuit to slay Moby Dick, a great white whale. “America’s national interests are subordinate to their selfish ones,” he writes. The House Republican caucus is…
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Watch This: Rapping to 'Sesame Street'
The beats were bumping and the rhymes flowing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon the other night when the host featured a hip-hop version of the Sesame Street theme song. Jimmy Fallon and The Roots were joined by Sesame Street characters Thursday to celebrate the children’s show’s 44th season by playing its theme song on…
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Feds to Offer Detroit $100M in Economic Recovery Aid
Finally, in a bit of good news for Detroit, the Obama administration announced plans Friday to provide the beleaguered city with $100 million in federal funds to help hire more police, firefighters and workers to improve blighted areas, according to the Associated Press. The total economic recovery package is about $300 million, which includes $200…
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