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Whitening Arizona
Clearly there is something in the water in Arizona. The state that legalized racial profiling and eliminated ethnic studies from its school curriculum is in the news again for another asinine incident – emphasis on as. A group is demanding that faces of Black and Latino students on a public mural be lightened or changed…
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Hotlanta: Is the Dirty South Really the Land of Milk and Honey?
It’s ”The ATL” and ”Hotlanta” to the hip-hop crowd. The Big Peach and Gate City to the bourgeoisie. No matter the label, it seems everyone wants to stake a claim here. And everyone has a fantasy of what will happen once they arrive. Atlanta’s mecca image has deep roots. Antebellum ”free people of color” laid…
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Black Jury Candidates Tell of Bias
Updated on June 6, 2010. More than two decades after the fact, William David Minor learned what Selma, Ala., prosecutors had concocted to eliminate him as a juror in the 1986 trial of a black man charged with murder. “They said my father was guilty of illegal activity, selling corn whiskey, and that my uncle…
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NEWSWEEK: Lessons From the Failure of Artur Davis
In trying to be post-racial, says Newsweek columnist Ellis Cose, the man who might have been Alabama’s first black governor ignored his base. We can’t all be Barack Obama. Artur Davis was supposed to be the Deep South’s first elected black governor. He had arrived at Harvard Law School in 1990-months after Barack Obama was…
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'Thurgood' Does Justice to the Man
by Peter Marks A good stage actor can immerse you in his imaginary world. An outstanding one makes you feel you’re the only other person in it. That higher-level mastery is achieved by Laurence Fishburne in “Thurgood,” the warmly satisfying one-man show based on the life of the first African American to sit on the…
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Jim Crow in the Jury Box
For many Americans, a notice to appear for jury service is an annoyance. Being selected for a jury can mean days off work with only a tiny stipend, listening to the details of lurid criminal activity or the mind-numbing medical testimony in a personal injury case. Many people selected for jury service ask to be…
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Whatever Happened to the Black Republican Wave?
This was supposed to be ”the year of the black Republican.” Google the phrase and you’ll get more than 20,000 results, most of them ending with a question mark. Prompted largely by a May 10 New York Times article, ”Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in GOP Races,” media outlets pounced on the Great African-American Republican…
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Obama's Temper and Temperance
The latest criticism of President Barack Obama stems from complaints about his laid-back persona (and its perceived impact on the delayed response) to the BP tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico. Often, this critique from the political right is presented as Obama’s fatal presidential flaw. However, his coolness may actually be a trait that will…
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A Cautionary Tale for Black Journalists
Gerald Boyd came this close to being on top of the world at the New York Times when he was named managing editor in 2001. In a taxi ride with his wife, Robin Stone, on his way to the Times’ midtown office from ”our newly renovated and decorated brownstone,” he turned to her, smiled and…
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Time to Buy a New Swimsuit. Oh, What Joy.
My current swimsuit is not long for this world. Time to give it a decent burial. I bought it about three years ago at TJ Maxx. It was one of those too-rare occasions when I went to TJM to look for something specific, and actually found it – right up front, in the seasonal “swim”…