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GOP Senator Conflates Immigration Reform and Boston Attacks
Colorlines‘ Seth Freed Wessler weighs in on the latest troubling comments from Republican Sen. Charles Grassley that confuse the two issues. As news from Boston continues to break, the Senate Judiciary Committee moved ahead this morning with a hearing on the comprehensive immigration reform bill introduced earlier in the week. As I noted after the…
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Quote of the Day: Nat 'Deadwood Dick' Love
Read the entire quote 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. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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Quote of the Day: Alain Locke
Read the entire quote 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. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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Watch This: Boston Suspect's Friends Speak Out
In a video from the New York Times, two young men who went to school with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev discuss their memories of the 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect who is still on the loose, after his 26-year-old brother was killed. “When the FBI released the photos, I was like, ‘Yeah, that looks like my friend…
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Will President Obama Rise to the Occasion?
(The Root) — Wars and tragedies have a tendency to define a presidency, fairly or not. Lyndon B. Johnson’s disastrous handling of the Vietnam War ultimately overshadowed his extraordinary advancement of civil rights. President Franklin Roosevelt’s status as one of America’s most beloved presidents was solidified with his leadership during World War II. President George…
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Boy Scouts Propose Lift of Ban on Gay Youths but Not on Leaders
The Boy Scouts of America will submit a proposal to its members to lift the ban on gay youth members, but the organization will continue to exclude gay people as leaders, the Associated Press reports. The week of May 20, 1,400 voting members of its National Council will have a chance to weigh in on…
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Boston Attacks: Who Are the Suspects?
UPDATED Friday, April 19: As the story of the attacks on Boston rapidly develops, Americans continue to sort through reports about the identities, descriptions and motivations of the suspects — sometimes with better results than others. (A report that one was interested in hip-hop? Not helpful.) It’s not the most urgent conversation taking place right…
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Describing a Suspect: A Few Tips for Mr. King
(The Root) — The federal authorities and Boston police put out the word early after the bombings at Monday’s Boston Marathon: Bring us your implausible, your unlikely, your huddled hunches yearning to be heard. Advance and be recognized. “We are processing all the digital photographic evidence we can,” said Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge…
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The Black Face of Abortion: Dr. Kermit Gosnell
Abortion could now be the new Black, thanks to Kermit Gosnell – depending on how it all plays out. What we do know for certain is that the West Philly horror stories are dramatically changing the landscape of the national abortion debate. And, it just so happens that the doctor performing the abortions is Black…
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Why White Critics' Fear of Engaging Tyler Perry Is Stifling Debate
They’ve offered analyses that, while largely negative, skip across the surface and ignore the depth, Joshua Alston argues in a piece for A.V. Club. At the end of March, Temptation: Confessions Of A Marriage Counselor hit theaters, bringing the number of films written and directed by Tyler Perry to 13 in just over seven years.…
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