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O'Reilly: Young Black Men Commit More Murders
During a segment of his show, The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly erupted into a rant against the black community while discussing crime in the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. “The civil rights industry will not take on the black crime problem because that would require…
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President Obama Rules Twitter
President Obama apparently is also commander in chief of Twitter. Burson-Marsteller’s annual Twiplomacy report shows that (@BarackObama) surpasses second-place Pope Francis (@Pontifex) for the most followed world leader on Twitter with 33,510,157 followers as of July 1, Politico reports. Despite his large following, Obama’s tweets are on average only retweeted 2,309 times versus Pope Francis’s 11,116 retweets…
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Why We Need to Keep Talking About Trayvon Martin
Trayvon Martin represents the story of African-American families across America, which is why it’s important not to forget his death, Chaedria LaBouvier writes at the Daily Kos. Trayvon Martin on trial has been so deeply personal for me and my entire family in part because it is our story too. I thought about not…
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Ginuwine Responds to Rumors Online
(The Root) — Viral video of a performance by R&B singers Tyrese, Ginuwine and Tank has had the Internet wondering about Ginuwine’s sobriety this week. The three — known as TGT — performed on the CBS show The Couch to promote their upcoming album, Three Kings. Tank played the keyboard while Tyrese sang and Ginuwine…
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Single, Lesbian Working Motherhood
Staceyann Chin writes poignantly at the Huffington Post about the joys, mishaps and struggles of being a single, lesbian working mother. Some days it feels like no one has ever been so tired or stressed. When you love your kid, and you wanted your kid, and you had so many people telling you that you…
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Poll: Stark Racial Divide in America After Verdict
A new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll presents more evidence that Americans are deeply divided on issues of race and justice following the trial of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the death of the unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, NBC News reports. The former neighborhood-watch captain’s lawyers argued that the shooting was not racially motivated. In the…
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Cornel West: MSNBC Is 'Rent-a-Negro' Cable
Cornel West continued his attack on the president in the wake of Obama’s speech after the George Zimmerman verdict. This time West went after MSNBC, calling the network a “rent-a-Negro” phenomenon, EURweb reports. The Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the president’s biggest proponents, is a host on the network. Well, West made a visit to…
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Obama to Shift Public Attention to Economy
President Barack Obama plans to give a series of back-to-back speeches over the next two days aimed at pushing for policies to expand the middle class. The goal is to help people he says are still struggling years after the financial crisis, the Associated Press reports. The talks come as Congress prepares to leave Capitol…
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How Not to Derail the Dialogue on Race
(The Root) — The question for this week’s column comes, loosely, from Slate’s William Saletan, who asked me to throw some ideas around with him as he composed a list of tips for “how to talk constructively about racism” in the wake of white-Hispanic George Zimmerman’s controversial acquittal in the shooting death of unarmed African-American…
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Why Blacks Should Support Immigration Reform
(The Root) — Reduced to its very essence, the contention over immigration reform is about numbers, meaning how many immigrants of color will further alter the complexion of America and how they might vote. For that reason, African Americans should care about the outcome of the current debate in Washington, D.C., because it is about…
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