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Stop and Frisk: What Racial Profiling Looks Like in Brooklyn
People are up in arms about SB 1070 in Arizona, but racial profiling is something that is as American as apple pie. What we call a “civil rights issue,” many communities of color call an everyday experience. Colorlines profiles voices from Brooklyn, N.Y., where racial profiling is a part of the cultural experience. These young…
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Ten Things We Really Should Be Talking About
Another one In Michigan, not Louisiana. Almost 20,000 barrels of oil flowed into the Kalamazoo River when a pipe ruptured in southern Michigan on July 26. Enbridge, the Canadian company operating the pipeline, said more than 10,000 barrels had been removed so far. But an official from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency predicted the cleanup…
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Summer Slim Down? More Like Slowdown: 36 Pounds Lost
Confession time: I’m only down 36 pounds. Me, I’m happy, but some of you guys have been pushing for more results. I understand. It’s not where I’d hoped to be at this point, either. I turn 49 at month’s end, and it would be nice to be down 49 pounds, if not 50. That would…
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Black NASCAR Crew Member Asked to Tap-Dance by ESPN Announcer
Fresh from the “Are you kidding us?” file, an ESPN announcer asked Kenyatta Houston, a black crew member for race-car driver Kevin Harvick, to tap-dance “for us.” Houston is a graduate of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity Program. How ironic? The funny thing about this sad situation is that the brother actually did it. Clearly he…
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Black History Unearthed in Timbuctoo, N.J.
By DeNeen Brown TIMBUCTOO, N.J. — In Timbuctoo lies a hill. Underneath that hill lies a house, or what archaeologists think might have been a house once upon a time. The silver clasp of a woman’s handbag, piles of Mason jars, chips of dinner plates and an empty jar of Dixie Peach Pomade lie among…
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Six Teenagers Drown in Red River
Six teenagers drowned in the Red River in northwest Louisiana. Apparently one of the teens stepped off of a ledge and into an 18-foot sinkhole. The others went in to try to rescue the teen, but none of them could swim. Shreveport Fire Chief Brian Crawford told the Shreveport Times that the victims, ages 13 to…
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Detectives Search Home of Lorenzen Wright's Ex-Wife
Authorities searched the home of murdered ex-NBA star Lorenzen Wright’s ex-wife. Neighbors reported that they saw heavy smoke coming from the fire pit in Sherra Wright’s backyard on the day Wright disappeared. They thought it was odd that she would be using the fire pit because it was extremely hot that day. Homicide detectives spent…
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Taliban Seeks Revenge Because of WikiLeaks
The fallout from the WikiLeaks documents read around the world continues. In case you’ve been living under a rock, federal authorities have arrested Pfc. Terri Manning, a 22-year-old intelligence analyst based near Baghdad, Iraq, who had top-secret security clearance to sensitive information about the war. The U.S. military is holding Manning in a Kuwait jail because…
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Anti-Deficit Republicans Want to Extend Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich
After blocking extensions of programs that “mainstream” economists said would create jobs and stimulate the economy, some Republicans want to make former President George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the rich permanent. How could you forget the drama over adding to the deficit by extending temporary benefits to the unemployed and Medicaid for states? That…
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Getting Shot at in Chicago
Last week a 13-year old boy named Robert Freeman was shot 22 times while riding his bicycle in front of his home on Chicago’s far south side. Last night I almost became a statistic while taking my daily walk in another south-Chicago neighborhood not far from where Freeman was killed. For the past few months,…