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Why Won't Conservatives Stop Fighting Obamacare?
Congressional Republican leaders have finally acquiesced in their fight against President Barack Obama’s health care reform and have even developed a plan of their own that essentially acknowledges they’re powerless to kill it, Jamelle Bouie writes at the Daily Beast. But their conservative Tea Party cohorts continue to rally tirelessly and ineffectively to defund it.…
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Obama Steps Back From the Brink
(The Root) — President Obama’s decision to postpone a U.S. military strike against Syria to pursue further diplomacy may restore the political credibility of an administration that, over the past two weeks, has been on a determined and aggressive course toward war. The rush to war has been disappointing and contrary to Obama’s call for…
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War in Syria: Why It Is a Bad Idea
Dr. Boyce Watkins at Your Black World says it’s hypocritical for the U.S. to employ a military strike against Syria. Instead of going to war with Syria, he urges President Barack Obama to reconsider his foreign policy and shift his focus to domestic affairs. But after thinking about the situation long and hard, I’ve concluded…
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De Blasio Finishes 1st in NYC Mayoral Primary
The Washington Post is reporting that with 97 percent of precincts recorded in Tuesday’s Democratic primary race for New York City mayor, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio captured about 40.2 percent of the total vote, which puts him slightly above the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid triggering a runoff on Oct. 1. The swirling, chaotic…
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Arkansas Cop Investigated in Death of 107-Year-Old Black Man
Police authorities in Arkansas are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of Monroe Isadore, 107, who was shot on Saturday in Pine Bluff, Ark., the Associated Press reports. He reportedly fired at police during a confrontation and was shot and killed by an officer. Authorities have said they tried using a camera, negotiating tactics and gas before shooting…
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Nation's Top 1 Percent Earn Biggest Slice Since 1920s
The gap between the wealthiest 1 percent and the rest of America is the biggest it’s been since the Roaring ’20s, the Washington Post reports. The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country’s household income last year — their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. And…
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Michelle Obama Weighs In on Syria
(The Root) — On Tuesday night, President Obama delivered one of the most important policy addresses of his presidency. Citing the horrors of the Holocaust and other human rights tragedies, the president laid out the case for why he has proposed military intervention in Syria. At the moment, military action now seems unlikely. After Secretary…
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'Ask a Slave': Come Down to the Plantation
(The Root) — The Harriet Tubman role was the last straw. After recurring guest spots spanning slavery to the civil rights movement, actress Azie Dungey was over the days of old. “The future just seemed like more history,” said Dungey. When a friend forming a historical actors’ troupe asked Dungey, who’d just finished playing a…
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Will an HBCU Make My Kid Too Black?
(The Root) — “My daughter is now entering her second year at a top historically black college. She has done well so far, but her father and I have realized that compared to the environment in which she grew up (we live in a mostly white area with some community members of different backgrounds and…
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Quote of the Day: John O. Killens on Integration
Read the quote in its full context 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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