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Like 'Girls,' 'Lean In' Is Too Harshly Criticized for Leaving Black Women Out
Writing at Essence, Daniella Gibbs Léger says that Sheryl Sandberg shouldn’t be raked over the coals for telling her life story, even if we don’t see ourselves in it. By now you’ve seen, read or heard the back-and-forth over Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In, her tome on women and the workplace. The…
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Confession: I'm Hiding My Interracial Relationship
Danielle T. Pointdujour writes at Ebony that she hopes her family can open their minds and share in her love, but if they can’t, that’s OK. … Since I wasn’t allowed to date until I was 16, I had a secret boyfriend in the months leading up to that milestone birthday. Mike was the best…
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'Bow Down' Sabotages Beyonce's Female Empowerment Efforts
After Beyonce’s Superbowl halftime show last month, The Atlantic sought to settle the debate about whether or not “the singer is a bona fide feminist or just a pop star cashing in on ‘girl power’.’” Highlighting eight moments in her career that seemingly suggest she is a feminist, writer Sophie Weiner concluded that Beyonce had a…
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The CPAC Race 'Chaos' Had a Silver Lining
(The Root) — Before you call me crazy for trying to find the silver lining in the storm clouds that hovered over the “Race Card” panel last Friday at CPAC, keep one thing in mind. I was there. And it definitely was, as first covered by Talking Points Memo’s Benjy Sarlin, a “shouting match” that…
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Tiger Dating: Should Black Women Care?
(The Root) — A couple of years ago, I turned down an interview opportunity with a major network for the first, but not last, time. The reason was the topic. The producer wanted to know if I, as a black woman, was willing to weigh in on the fact that the Tiger Woods scandal that…
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Congo War Crimes Suspect Surrenders at US Embassy
Bosco Ntaganda, a Congolese warloard who’s accused of conscripting child soldiers, lived as an international fugitive for years. But yesterday he walked right into the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda and asked to be transferred to the International Criminal Court, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said. The Associated Press reports that news of the surrender first…
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Did Teen Killed by Homeowner Think He Was in His Own House?
Virginia teen Caleb Gordley was shot and killed by a neighbor Saturday night in what appears to have been a tragic combination of drinking, two identical houses and a homeowner with a loaded gun, the Washington Post reports. It seems the 16-year-old mistook a neighboring home for his own the night of his death, in…
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Slain Chicago Infant Jonylah Watkins' Funeral Held Today
A funeral for 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins, who was shot and killed while sitting on her father’s lap, is being held in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood today, WGNTV reports. The infant survived emergency surgery but died the next morning. Police say they believe her father, Jonathan, was targeted by a rival gang member. No arrests have…
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Steele on Limbaugh's 'Chavez' Comment: 'Oh, Because He's Hispanic?'
No one expected Rush Limbaugh to have kind words about Tom Perez, the Justice Department official who is President Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of labor. But when he compared the Latino attorney to the “grand kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan” and the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, it even got a response from…
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Racist Tweets Rock NY Fire Department
(The Root) — Late Monday, news broke that an aspiring New York firefighter would resign from the city’s fire department, where he was working as an EMT, because of racially inflammatory tweets. Making the matter even more newsworthy and shocking is that the author of the offensive tweets is the son of the city’s fire…
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