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Black Celebs Showed Out at Paris Fashion Week
The Viral TikTok Tale of a White Waitress at a St. Louis Restaurant Calling a Black Woman Customer the B-Word
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Rocky Mountain Low
By Jessica Dweck On Election Day, Colorado residents will determine who gets to be a person. They’ll vote on Amendment 62, which defines a person as a human being from the beginning of “biological development.” That’s code for conception. The measure would grant fertilized eggs the right to life, liberty, happiness and due process of…
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Juan Williams' Taboo-Breaking Mishap
It’s as if Juan Williams were a man in a small rain forest tribe and he called out a taboo name for a spirit. Or a lion. Or said the name of someone deceased. In human societies, some words will be considered magical — and not just in the societies we think of as primal.…
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Juan Williams and the Slippery Slope of New-Media Values
Behind and beyond the headlines about the process in the Juan Williams case — the firing, the reaction to the firing, the reaction to the reaction to the firing, pseudo-First Amendment arguments — the imbroglio shines a spotlight on troublesome developments in media. Truth, facts, fairness and objectivity have been the hallmarks of good journalism…
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Valerie Jarrett Makes Another Plea for Black Voters
The White House’s last-minute push for black voters continued today, with senior advisor to the president Valerie Jarrett taking questions from black media during a conference call scheduled by the DNC. Jarrett’s opening statement, like much of the Q&A that followed, covered ground that’s been covered a lot in the past few several weeks: Though…
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'Mad Men' Is Not About Us
Mad Men is certainly not a show in which black people can enjoy seeing people who look like them. As marvelous as the show has become over four seasons, for a black person it can be almost chilling to see one’s own color only in the occasional elevator operator, handyman or passerby. Or mugger. Or…
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'The View': Juan Williams Should Not Have Been Fired
The women of The View weighed in on NPR firing Juan Williams because of comments he made about Muslims. In a rare instance of agreement, the ladies said that Williams should not have been fired for expressing his personal opinions. Joy Behar was noticeably absent, with celebrity host and staunch conservative Patricia Heaton filling in…
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Marion Jones Releases Book: 'On the Right Track'
Once-celebrated track-and-field star Marion Jones has written a book, On the Right Track, detailing her shocking rise and fall in the world of track and field. Once known as the fastest woman on earth, the former Olympian admitted that she lied to federal investigators about using performance-enhancing substances and her involvement in a check-fraud case.…
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Northwestern University: No Blackface This Halloween
Northwestern University’s Dean Burgwell J. Howard has sent an e-mail to students warning that there will be no blackface costumes this year, particularly after photos of students donning blackface and offensive costumes surfaced last Halloween. The e-mail was also signed by other student leaders and actually informed students why blackface is a horrible, racist practice.…
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How Obama's Green Policies Benefit Blacks
This is Part 2 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. As African-American environmental-justice proponents Van Jones and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins will tell you, environmental sustainability and climate change are, in addition to their general importance, also tremendously relevant…
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Rand Paul Supporters Wrestle Woman to the Ground
Fresh from our “You’ve gotta be kidding me” file, Lauren Valle of MoveOn.org told Louisville, Ky., station WDRB that she was wrestled to the ground when trying to confront Republican candidate Rand Paul Monday night in Lexington right before a debate between Paul and Democratic opponent Jack Conway. Valle alleges that she was “manhandled” by…