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Obamacare Website Glitches: Privilege Is Clouding Reporting
Political commentator Zerlina Maxwell, writing at Feministing, hits journalists who have health coverage but log on to healthcare.gov, make false calls into the call center and then report negative stories about problems with Obamacare enrollment. She says that these journalists are letting their position of privilege cloud their reporting — and they’re missing the point…
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From Sandwiches to 'Housewives': Bad Relationship Advice
Zerlina Maxwell, writing at BET, delivers a stern message to women passing off bad relationship advice: We are not in the 1950s. She is responding to advice from the sandwich-making New York Post reporter and one of the “Housewives,” who essentially suggest that women cater to their men in order to keep them. It’s 2013, but…
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Street Harassment: Catcalling Rape Culture
At Ebony, Zerlina Maxwell speaks to Anti-Street Harassment Week founder Holly Kearl about the fight to allow women to walk down the street safely and in peace. This week is the 2nd annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week. Founded by Holly Kearl, International Anti-Street Harassment week has the goal of bringing awareness and energy to the movement…
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Why Doesn't America Care About Dead Black Children?
What’s behind the absence of national mourning when young victims of violence are African American? Ebony‘s Zerlina Maxwell seeks out the perspectives of two experts. The public outcry for gun legislation after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was swift and forceful. Suddenly, there was a narrative shift in the media that something…
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What Is the Fiscal Cliff, Anyway?
The “fiscal cliff” is a politically manufactured crisis that is more like “steps,” Zerlina writes in a piece at Ebony, adding that Americans can rest assured that the end of the world is not upon us if a deal between House Republicans and the president isn’t reached by the deadline on Dec. 31. First of…
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Did Cornel West Go Too Far — Again?
(The Root) — Professor Cornel West has struck again. The always outspoken Obama critic recently said in an interview with Democracy Now: “I think that it’s morally obscene and spiritually profane to spend $6 billion on an election, $2 billion on a presidential election, and not have any serious discussion — poverty; trade unions being…
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Can Romney Recover From His Stance on FEMA?
Daily News blogger Zerlina Maxwell checks in on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s flip-flop concerning federal spending on disaster relief in light of Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath. She determines that politically, he will have difficulty outrunning the eye of the storm. … Although he has flip-flopped already, in a response to a question about whether…
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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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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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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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