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African-American Test Scores Suffer Because of Violence
It seems that living in a violent neighborhood can distract students from being able to focus and pay attention during tests, even if they did not witness the crime. NYU’s Patrick Sharkey published a report that examined the link between violence and test scores in Chicago. Sharkey found hat African-American children tested within a week…
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Home, Sweet Home: NOT
For all of those people who thought home sales would increase in May because of the home buying tax credit, think again. According to the National Association of Realtors, May sales fell from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.66 million. Sales have increased 25 percent from the 4.5 million annual…
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Why Is the Media Obsessed with Unmarried Black Women?
Jezebel.com is unpacking why media appear to be so obsessed with unmarried black women. How interesting is it that women who have been historically marginalized are now front and center for all the world to see — as lonely, desperate, undesirable and not marriageable. The blame game, scare tactics, the Obama effect and marriage as…
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General to Apologize for Anti-Administration Comments
by Ernesto Londoño and Michael D. Shear KABUL — The top U.S. general in Afghanistan is headed to Washington to apologize for a magazine profile that includes highly critical remarks by him and his staff about top Obama administration officials involved in Afghanistan policy. The article in this week’s Rolling Stone magazine is certain to…
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The Wild, Wild Midwest: 54 People Shot in Chicago over the Weekend
What’s really going on? Chicago has had yet another weekend of mayhem with 54 shootings. 54 shootings? Ten people were killed including four black males between the ages of 16 and 20, who were found naked, shot to death and lying face down on railroad property on the South Side. A baby girl suffered a…
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NASA's Charles Bolden Criticized in Biofuels Controversy
Charles Bolden, the first African American to head NASA, is under fire for wanting to cancel a $10 million biofuels project. Supporters of this project include his deputy, Lori Carver. Bolden is being investigated by the NASA inspector general because he consulted on the project’s merits with Marathon Oil, where he served on the board…
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Black Pregnant Women More Likely to Die
The death rate of women in childbirth has declined worldwide largely because of help from Washington, but that is not the case in some communities in the United States. Racial and economic health gaps have been blamed for the number of women that die from pregnancy-related causes. A study of long-term trends in pregnancy related…
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Nigeria's Oil Spill and the Missing White Girl
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that in the news media one missing white girl equals half a dozen dead black girls or 100 dead Muslims or 1,000 Africans with AIDS. The missing white girl will always get front-page coverage while death and disease striking men and women of color will be relegated to the inside…
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Aaron McGruder vs. Tyler Perry
Aaron McGruder has put the proverbial foot in the bottom of Madea in a recent Boondocks episode. Perry is taken to task for exploiting black women, Christ and negative stereotypes of blacks through the character of Winston Jerome. McGruder likens being a part of Jerome’s crew to joining a cult of “homo-erotic Christians.” McGruder’s seminal…