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Quick Clips: Map Puts Oil Spill in Perspective
Paul Rademacher provides maps of the spill that will likely make your brain hurt. On April 20, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon left 17 workers injured and 11 missing and presumed dead. Oil is spilling from a well 5,000 feet below sea level, discharging 200,000 gallons of crude oil a day, according to the…
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The Troubles and Triumphs of Black Supermodels
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Born Peggy Anne Freeman in Detroit, Luna was a breakthrough cover girl on British Vogue in March 1966. A favorite of fashion photographer Richard Avedon, she presented herself as an exotic, mixed-race, otherwordly creature “from the moon.” Luna appeared in several art…
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Mark Zuckerberg: Privacy Champion
Mark Zuckerberg is a transparency-loving rascal. Saw this over on Gawker, which got its info from Business Insider’s in-depth look at Zuckerberg’s shadiness. Below is the choice meat from the Gawker piece Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company are suddenly facing a big new round of scrutiny and criticism about their cavalier attitude toward user…
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Frisky Business: New York's Minorities More Likely to Get Searched By Police
If you’re brown in New York, you’re nine times as likely to be frisked as a white person. But, look on the bright side, you’re not any more likely to be arrested! The more than 575,000 stops of people in the city, a record number of what are known in police parlance as “stop and…
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New Jersey Gov. Dumps State's Only Black Supreme Court Justice
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is determined to make the New Jersey Supreme Court more to his liking and did so by replacing John Wallace, a Democrat and the only African American on the bench, with Anne Patterson, a white Republican [A] coalition of African-American leaders blasted Gov. Chris Christie’s decision not to re-nominate state…
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Ghana Receives Top Marks in Press Freedom
In terms of freedom of the press, Reporteurs San Frontiers ranked Ghana the best among African nations in 2009 The Minister of Information John Tia Akologu promised that the government is committed to passing the Freedom of Information law, because the constitution of Ghana guarantees the people, freedom of information. He said: “When the Right…
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Los Angeles Boycotts Arizona
L.A.’s city council has approved a boycott of Arizona businesses. It is the largest city to do so in response to Arizona’s recent immigration law and ethnic studies ban. The 13-1 vote, which came after emotional discussion in which several council members recounted their immigrant ancestors, was largely symbolic since only a small percentage of…
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Surprised? Emerging Oil Rig Evidence Shows Lack of Regulation
The first solid looks at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion are indicative of a trend of poorly regulated offshore rigs across the United States. Wednesday’s hearings by congressional and administration panels – in Washington and in Louisiana – laid out a checklist of unseen breakdowns on largely unregulated aspects of well safety that appear…
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Neil Armstrong Isn't Very Pumped About Obama's Space Plans
Neil Armstrong believes President Obama’s plan for the space program may doom NASA to fall behind in this generation’s space race: “If the leadership we have acquired is simply allowed to fade away, other nations will surely step in where we have faltered,” said the Apollo 11 commander. “I do not believe that this would…