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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Quick Clips: Scenes from Arizona Protests
Below is but one of many scenes of protest in Arizona picked up by Race Wire Check out all the clips at Race Wire
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Know Your Rights App for iPhone
Know Your Rights is a free app from developer Appropos for iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads. Below is the app description We all recognize the need for effective law enforcement, but we should also understand our own rights and responsibilities — especially in our interactions with the police.This app tells you what to do if…
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Economy Doing So Badly That Ford Posts $2.1B Profit in 1st Quarter
Don’t look now, but people are kinda sorta spending money again. And, wouldn’t you know it? They’re buying American Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it earned $2.1 billion in the first quarter, another sign that the economy is improving as people spend more on big-ticket items like cars. The automaker expects to be solidly profitable…
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When Bootstraps Aren't Enough
When I was in college, I put my father out. A recovering drug addict, he was living with me and my sister while he ”got back on his feet.” My father’s time there was supposed to be brief. Three months morphed into too damn many. After coming home from another day busting my butt working…
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Can Gentrifiers Be Black?
Recently, an affluent couple had their eye on what could be their first home: a lovely corner lot in Hillcrest neighborhood of Washington, D.C. When the previous owners, both Howard graduates, bought the house in 1968, they were the first black family on the block. That was the year that the few remaining white middle-class…
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UMASS Student Faces 30 Years Following Dorm Fight
A UMASS student is in the fight for his life after an on-campus fight with two white men. Controversy surrounds the incident and some say it is yet another example of racial prejudice involved in legal matters. An excerpt from Campus Progress’ feature is below On the morning in question, Vassell was in his dorm…
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SHOCKER: Depressed People Eat More Chocolate
Sandra Boynton, report to UC San Diego. There’s a new study out by, hmmm, let’s say OBVIOUS MAN, that says people who eat a lot of chocolate are more likely to be depressed than people who eat less chocolate. These UC San Diego researchers found that people diagnosed as “possibly depressed” by psychiatrists ate 8.4…
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Underwear Bomber Allegedly Shown in Training Video
Suspected Christmas Day Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is allegedly shown in an al-Qaeda training video firing a rifle and making a martyrdom statement to camera A US intelligence official said the preliminary judgment was that the person in the video was indeed Mr Abdulmutallab, the Associated Press news agency reports. The footage was consistent with…
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New Orleans' Jazz Fest: NoLa Heritage—and Pearl Jam, Too
NEW ORLEANS—The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival tries to be a mirror of New Orleans culture. The jazz part is relatively easy. When the festival started in 1970, jazz was still somewhat en vogue, though its grip on American culture was weakening. Many of the music’s most legendary figures were still alive and performing,…