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Julian Bond on Gay Rights and Civil Rights
Though African Americans have a long history of fighting for civil rights, not all believe that the battle is similar to that for gay rights. Huffington Post contributor Michael G. Long parses civil rights activist Julian Bond’s take on how he thinks Martin Luther King Jr. would view the struggle for gay rights. And what…
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Buckwheat Unchained
(The Root) — There was a beehive of activity when I arrived at the Home for Retired Racial Stereotypes. Buckwheat and Kingfish, dressed in hard hats, were going over some blueprints while Tonto and Charlie Chan unloaded bricks from a pickup truck and the Frito Bandito adroitly maneuvered a backhoe. Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben…
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Did Dogs Really Eat Slaves, Like in 'Django'?
(The Root) — Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 14: Were slaves actually eaten by dogs, as was shown in the film Django Unchained? Also, was it unusual for slaves to ride horses — and were they really forced to fight each other to the death? One of the scholar’s favorite spectator sports when it…
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True the Vote Returns With Voter-Reform Laws
After working to suppress the vote during the 2012 presidential election, the True the Vote organization, writes Brentin Mock in Colorlines, has merely changed its strategy. This year they’ve jumped off with two new groups: True the Vote NOW: A new initiative described as: “We promote ideas that actively protect the rights of legitimate voters,…
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Innocence in the Age of White Male Mass Shootings
As a white man, David J. Leonard writes on Gawker that when he’s wrong he’s been given ample opportunities to explain himself. And this American psychology, he argues, rears its head in the process of deciphering mass murderers like Aurora, Colo.’s James Holmes. The “its suppose to happen” in inner-city communities reframe is not surprising.…
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How Will Obama Handle Affirmative Action?
(The Root) — Between now and the inauguration on Jan. 21, The Root will be taking a daily look at the president’s record on a number of policy issues, including his first-term accomplishments and what many Americans hope to see him accomplish in a second term. Today: affirmative action. See previous postings in this series…
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Don Cheadle Talks Obama Hopes, 'Django' Toys
(The Root) — Don Cheadle and crew return tonight at 10 p.m. ET in the second-season premiere of House of Lies on Showtime. The show, which features Cheadle’s slick-talking character Marty Kaan as the head of a management-consultant firm, also stars Glynn Turman as his dad, Donis Leonard Jr. as his son and Josh Lawson…
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MHP: Slow Down, Chris Christie
As New Jersey continues to clean up its coastline in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the state’s Gov. Chris Christie has begun gathering steam as a possible GOP presidential candidate in 2016. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry is impressed with his disaster-relief advocacy strides; however, she points out, Christie has left his home state in the…
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Indian Police Arrest 7 Men in New Gang Rape
On Sunday, police in the Northern state of Punjab, India, said they have arrested seven men for the gang rape of a woman on a bus. This crime follows a similar sexual assault of another young woman in New Delhi who was gang-raped by a group of men on a bus, including the driver, and…
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Clinton Visits Haiti for Quake Anniversary
On Saturday, Haitian President Michel Martelly and former U.S. President Bill Clinton marked the third anniversary of Haiti’s disastrous earthquake with a quiet ceremony of wreath-laying, according to the Daily News. While urging locals to remember the victims of the natural disaster, Martelly also thanked the international countries who lent support in the aftermath of…
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