Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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The Black-White Wealth Gap Is Growing
In 1999, when Sheryl Breslin’s daughter entered kindergarten, she was already playing with a medical kit and expressing a desire to be a doctor. Sheryl, like all parents, had high hopes for her child and had saved $1,000 for college. She wanted a nice home and wanted her daughter to go to a good college,…
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'Let's Move'? Try Peer Pressure
By New Years Eve of 2001, I’d bought a house, had a new baby and got married in a short, six-month burst. I was in a new neighborhood in the middle of Washington, D.C., where I was too lazy and too scared to run on my own. When I casually mentioned to my neighbor, Von…
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Brown, Black and the Persistence of Profiling
About a week after 9/11, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case that began in a sleepy, college town in upstate New York. That case, Brown v. City of Oneonta, involved one of the most egregious cases of racial profiling in decades. An elderly woman in the upstate New York college town reported…
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Why Is President Obama Sidestepping the Immigration Issue?
President Obama has been criticized for not taking a more aggressive stance on immigration. His critics say he doesn’t want to be caught up in a contentious issue with important elections ahead. This author says it’s more complicated than that. With his crammed domestic agenda and teetering approval ratings, President Obama is moseying away from…
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Texas School Board Rewrites History
The Texas State School Board just won’t let well enough alone. The board voted 9-5 Friday to revise the curriculum of history taught in state schools to reflect a more conservative view. The guidelines will be used in teaching the state’s 4.8 million students over the next ten years. But the seven-member conservative bloc on…
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Aiyana Jones' Funeral: Hundreds Mourn Slain Child
Hundreds of mourners filled Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit to say a final good-bye today to 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones, who was cut down last Sunday by a police bullet when officers raided her home looking for a murder suspect. According to the Detroit News report from the funeral service: Teen music artist Justin Bieber’s…
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Trinidad Election is No Carnival
In a place as fond of a good time as Trinidad and Tobago, it’s no surprise that much of its election on Monday is being fought through calypso and chutney, creolized up-tempo Indian rhythms. On the airwaves and political platforms, these musical manifestos truncate the issues in catchy choruses for the party faithful and others…
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The Hotbed That Produced Obama
Barack Obama took the oath of office as a United States senator on January 4, 2005, and promptly began running for president. Very quickly, he began using the peculiar kind of celebrity that comes with being a senator to introduce himself to Washington, to a new generation of political power brokers, and, more broadly, to…
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Tinkerbell, the Clap and Exercise
Tinkerbell was growing weaker, her light fading, but when all the little children began clapping their hands, Tinkerbell sprang back to life. Whether you believe in fairies or not, wouldn’t it be cool if, when we were starting to fade, a bunch of folks would come to our rescue and make sure we came back…
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Closing the Black-White Wealth Gap
Are you living paycheck to paycheck, counting down the days until your next direct deposit? Do you find yourself in the same basic financial state you were in five years ago, with a slightly better salary and slightly nicer stuff? If so, you’re not alone. Recent research confirms that high-earning African-American households lag far behind…