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Race in Cuba: The Politics of Power and Hypocrisy
The letter signed by 60 African Americans about the state of racism in Cuba, which ended decades of silence on Cuba’s racial policies, was the first shot. Naturally, certain sectors of the foreign press, representing interests that had always been racist, tried to take advantage of the situation. A good number of intellectuals on the…
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BP Using Prison Labor in Oil Spill Cleanup
Surprise, surprise. BP is using inmates from the Louisiana prison system to clean up the oil spill. The words “Inmate Labor” are emblazoned on their backs as they toil in record heat, cleaning up the mess that BP has made. Local residents are angry that the company is using cheap labor instead of employing local…
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What Obama Should Talk About on 'The View'
When President Barack Obama appears on glorified kaffeeklatsch The View on Thursday, he—and by extension the entire federal government—will be in front of the largest audience than they’ve seen in months. Last year, The View’s average viewership was a little over 4 million people. President Obama’s latest weekly address on YouTube? Thirty-seven thousand views. As…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Deconstructs the National Conversation on Race
An excerpt from “The Conversation on Race”: I keep hearing people bantering about this notion of a national conversation on race, and I have finally figured out why it rankles so. This is a country where any variant of the phrase “slavery caused the Civil War” is still considered controversial, and where respectable intellectuals believe…
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Ex-College Football Star Gets Another Chance After Prison
Former Ohio State University football star Maurice Clarett has re-enrolled after serving more than three years in prison. Clarett led the Buckeyes to the 2002 national championship in his only season in college. In 2006 he pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery and carrying a concealed weapon and served 3-1/2 years in a Toledo prison, where…
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Sheila Johnson Has a New Vision
This article originally ran under the name “The ‘Other’ Sheila Johnson” on BlackAIDS.org. Don’t call Sheila Johnson a billionaire. “I hate that,” she says. Technically, Johnson, the BET co-founder-turned-philanthropist, is worth only $400 million, according to last year’s Forbes list of America’s richest black folks. Recently she put $500,000 of that fortune where her heart…
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Community Gains From Beauty Shop’s Weight-Loss Contest
It was a case of three entrepreneurs getting together and doing something great to combat the obesity problem, and to build community. The community: beautiful, historic Asheville, North Carolina. The entrepreneurs: Stefanie Williams, owner of Stefanie’s Hair and Beauty Design Studio; Elaine Robinson, executive director of the Asheville-Buncombe Institute of Parity Achievement (ABIPA), and Pete…
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Civil Rights Groups Blast President Obama's Education Reforms
The NAACP and the National Urban League are among those blasting President Barack Obama’s education-reform plan. Seven education and civil rights groups released a six-point plan for equitable and sustainable national education reform in this country in response to the plan proposed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan. They are calling for an end to Duncan’s…
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Sonia Sanchez on the State of Black Books
Sonia Sanchez is a poet of the highest order. She is consistent in her nonconformist call to arms and to love. The author of more than 14 books — including Wounded in the House of a Friend, Homegirls and Handgrenades, Shake Loose My Skin and the newly released collection of poetry Morning Haiku, her first…
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Wal-Mart to Open 500 Financial Centers
Retail giant Wal-Mart is expanding exponentially. It is increasing the number of financial centers by 50 percent. The expansion will result in 1,500 stores that have the financial centers located inside them, which gives the retailer a financial presence that only a few banks have. If you’re fed up with the banks, you may want…