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Going Beyond 'Better' for Gay Youth
When “Savage Love” columnist Dan Savage launched “It Gets Better” — a viral campaign intended to lift the spirits of distraught gay teens and thwart additional suicide attempts — he quoted the late Harvey Milk: “You gotta give ’em hope.” It’s a sentiment I myself espoused when I decided, after the suicide deaths of two…
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Single-Minded: Sorry Apologies
If you have to ask for an apology, you probably don’t deserve one. Whether it’s Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni, asking sexual-harassment whistle blower Anita Hill to apologize for what she did to her husband, or Rand Paul volunteer Tim Profitt claiming that the protester on whose head he stomped owes him an apology (he…
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Bill Clinton Almost Persuaded Kendrick Meek to Drop Out of Senate Race Twice
Former President Bill Clinton nearly convinced Florida Democrat Kendrick Meek to drop his Senate bid — twice. The thought was that Meek would bow out of the race and encourage his supporters to vote for Republican-turned-independent candidate Charlie Crist. This move would help keep Republican Marco Rubio, who is leading both candidates and poised to…
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Obama Let's His Rigid Patness Show
If you think it would be tremendously exciting to interview President Obama, you should know that things tend to be quite dry once you get past the thrill of meeting the most powerful man on Earth. With less than a week until the tremendously critical midterm elections, Obama is not taking any chances by speaking…
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Baracka Flacka Flames and Hip-Hop Minstrelsy
It is always a good time to talk about racism and poisonous images pumping through the mass-media pipeline. What is most interesting is the traditional but unpredictable source of the trouble. Whenever critics point at Tea Party posters of Barack Obama as a witch doctor or as a garishly dressed pimp attending a ball at…
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Rally to Restore Sanity: Call for Photos
You would literally have to be living under a rock not to know that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are coming to D.C. this weekend to spearhead the Rally to Restore Sanity. The Root readers are in the know, so we expect that you will be here in full force on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010.…
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Rinku Sen Takes on the Most Racist Political Campaigns in Recent Memory
ColorLines’ Rinku Sen finally says what everyone is thinking but few are actually willing to say. Check it out: Excerpt: If the election of 2008 was a referendum on race, the midterms are feeling like a recount. The dominant political discourse of 2008 centered on an improbable question: Could a black man overcome decades’ worth…
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How Do You Say the N-Word in French?
The word nègre is being bandied about in the French media in an unusually intense way these days, thanks to the blatherings of the cosmetics tycoon Jean-Paul Guerlain, who said on French television recently that he had “worked like a nègre” to develop the perfume Samsara. When the newscaster Audrey Pulvar, born in Martinique, called…
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Prison Economics Drive Arizona Immigration Law
Benson, Ariz., City Manager Glenn Nichols has let the cat out of the bag. In an interview with NPR, Nichols details how he was approached by businessmen who were planning to build a prison that would be filled with illegal immigrants. The prison would specifically house women and children who had been identified as illegal…
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How Obama's Educational Policies Benefit Blacks
This is Part 4 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. There is perhaps no issue more important to the black community’s success than education. Few things — health care included — can practically guarantee a life filled…