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Ben Jealous Talks to Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(The Root) — NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous — the young leader who has served as the face of the nation’s largest civil rights organization for the past five years — has shocked many with the announcement that he’ll step down from his post Dec. 31. In an in-depth conversation with The Root’s…
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Can the GOP Suddenly Become a Party of Peace?
Usually hawkish members of the Republican Party have aligned themselves with Democrat doves in an eye-catching makeover that only serves as a challenge to the Obama administration’s position on Syria, Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes at his Hutchinson Report News. The stunning number of GOP law makers that are vehemently opposed to US war making against Syria…
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Time to End Racism on the Runway
Award-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan, at New York magazine, endorses former model agency owner Bethann Hardison’s recent letter that calls for an end to racism on the runway. Diplomacy has shifted to confrontation. Bethann Hardison, the former model agency owner who has been a leading advocate for greater diversity on the fashion runway, has gone…
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Syria: America's Moral Dilemma
In a piece at her blog, Farai.com, Farai Chideya explores questions that have bedeviled President Barack Obama and Congress in the smoldering debate over Syria. She blends issues of morality (When is killing justified?) with those of national interest (Will intervention help America?). Let’s parse out a few of these different lines, and who espouses them.…
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NAACP's Ben Jealous to Step Down in January
In a surprise move, Benjamin Todd Jealous, NAACP president and CEO, says he plans to step down in January, the Washington Post reports. He is slated to make the announcement on Monday. Five years ago when Jealous took the helm of the 104 year-old civil rights group, he became the youngest president in its history.…
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Vogue Cover Nixed Because of Miley's VMA 'Struggle-Twerk'
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has canceled plans to feature Miley Cyrus on the December cover after witnessing her recent performance at the Video Music Awards, according to the Daily Mail. The 20-year-old […] was photographed for the December issue as editor-in-chief Anna Wintour had been eager to champion her as a new fashion icon. But…
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NYC Man Feared Brain-Dead After Hate Attack
New York City police are investigating a possible hate crime after a black man reportedly shouted, “I’m going to punch the first white man I see,” before attacking Jeffrey Babbitt, 62, who fell backward and hit his head on the ground, the Daily News reports. Babbitt is feared brain-dead. Jeffrey Babbitt, 62, who is white,…
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Bloomberg Accuses Bill de Blasio of 'Racist' Campaign
During a recent interview, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Bill de Blasio, a Democrat in the race to replace him, is running a “racist” campaign based on “class warfare,” the Washington Post reports. Bloomberg made the comment about candidate Bill de Blasio in an interview with New York magazine due on newsstands Monday.…
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Quote of the Day: Henry Clay Bruce on Reparations
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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Before Blacks Ruled the College Game
(Special to The Root) — Fifty years ago, when viewers across the country tuned in to watch the Loyola Ramblers play the Cincinnati Bearcats in the 1963 NCAA men’s basketball championship, they saw for the first time a sight that’s familiar to us today: Most of the players on the court, seven of 10, were…
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