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SlutWalk: A Black-White Feminist Divide
The SlutWalk movement — a worldwide, city-by-city protest march aimed at ending victim blaming in cases of sexual assault — has been full of controversy since its inception. Because blaming the victim is a colorblind phenomenon, SlutWalk organizers may have taken for granted that every woman and every feminist of every color would support the…
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Should Obama Endorse Gay Marriage?
With President Obama’s sights set on his re-election, some decisions must be made about how the campaign can re-energize his base. One segment, the gay community and their allies, has been frustrated with Obama and his “evolving” (at a snail’s pace) stance on marriage equality. While the administration made good on its campaign promise on…
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The GOP's War on Women's Reproductive Rights
Blogging at Ebony magazine, Zerlina Maxwell offers an interesting explanation of the GOP’s war on reproductive rights. She describes it as an all-out effort to manipulate an appeals process to put a case before the conservative Supreme Court in hopes of overturning Roe v. Wade — and abortion rights. With the economy on the upswing,…
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Is Santorum the GOP's Most Extreme Candidate?
Blogging at Loop21, Zerlina Maxwell weighs in on Rick Santorum’s rhetoric about the separation between church and state. She says that it highlights how deeply out of sync he is with mainstream America and why he is the Republican Party’s most extreme presidential candidate. Rick Santorum’s extreme views on separation between church and state are…
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Was the FAMU Hazing Actually a Hate Crime?
Following Florida A&M University student Robert Champion’s death, Ebony contributor Zerlina Maxwell wonders if Champion’s abuse was really simply a hazing ritual gone terribly wrong. Champion’s parents revealed that their son was gay after his death, and now Maxwell and others are curious if the fatal abuse Champion suffered was because he wanted to join…
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Title IX Turns 40, Flaws and All
(The Root) — I am a Title IX baby. My 10-year career as a competitive gymnast and high school and college track athlete can be credited to the 1972 measure, which increased funding for women’s sports programs at all levels so that young women like me were able to excel in a new athletic frontier.…
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Where Is Romney's Empathy?
Zerlina Maxwell, blogging at the New York Daily News, says that the GOP candidate may be missing the required “sensitivity chip.” Mitt Romney is having a no good, very bad week. After falling further behind the President by failing to get a convention bounce and flubbing a crucial moment in foreign policy that even has…
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GOP's Obsession With Obama's Black Staffers
Ebony‘s Zerlina Maxwell argues that the recent attacks on Valerie Jarrett are just the latest example of the Republican Party playing dirty with high-level African-American liberals. When the same thing happens twice, it’s possibly a coincidence. When the same thing happens three times, it’s time to talk trends. The Republican party and, by extension, their…
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Black Female Voters Under Attack
In 2008, 69 percent of black women eligible to vote cast their ballot for President Barack Obama. Now, Ebony contributor Zerlina Maxwell writes, this group is especially targeted by new voter-ID laws, which may keep them away from the polls. Unsurprisingly, Black women are also among those groups more likely to be impacted by voter…
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Zingers Won't Save You, Mitt
Writing at New York’s Daily News, Zerlina Maxwell says that while it’s obvious one-liners won’t win the presidential debate for Romney, President Obama will need to do these three things to really distinguish himself. Relax It seems obvious, but Obama doesn’t always remember this one. As I wrote last year, “he does that uptight lip-purse…
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