Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You SMH
Should Black Americans Care That Trump Is Targeting African Nations For Deportation After Years of Africans Being So Damn Disrespectful To Us?
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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Sometimes, Minstrelsy Is … Minstrelsy
Jamelle of PostBourgie thinks the attacks on Charles Blow’s recent column on blacks in the Tea Party are off-base: I wouldn’t say that Friedersdorf is missing the point here, I’m not sure if he’s aware enough to grasp the problem with this particular display of “diversity.” Conor calls Blow’s piece unfair, asserting that “In any…
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Family Affair: "Is Rahm Emanuel Right About Obama?"
Rahm Emanuel thinks Barack Obama’s worldview is much like that of George Bush the Older. Nine experts from Foreign Policy weigh in on that assessment. Below is an excerpt from Robert Kagan, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace I will leave it to the self-described realists to explain in greater detail the…
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Jay Smooth of Nil Doctrine Mentally Karate Chops T-Pain
This is one of the best vlogs series on the web and expect to see these gems from Jay Smooth on the Buzz from time to time.
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A Drift Back to Segregation?
Could an education ruling speak to a drifting back toward segregation? During her elementary school years in this rural Mississippi town, Addreal Harness, a competitive teenager with plans to be a doctor, said her classes had about the same numbers of white and black students. It was a fact she took little note of until…
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Benjamin Hooks' Dashed GOP Dreams
It’s hard to make pancakes with your right arm broken and useless in a sling. It was 90 degrees and humid in Miami Beach, even though it was just 7:30 in the morning. Frances Hooks was struggling to fix breakfast in the kitchen of their hotel suite during the NAACP annual convention in 1980. Breakfast…
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Mourning a 'Lioness' of Civil Rights
This article was updated at 12:39 p.m. Dorothy I. Height, a commanding force in civil rights movement who stood on the platform with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, died of natural causes at 3:41 a.m. at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC. She was 98…
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Dorothy Height Passes Away at 98
Dorothy Height, founding matriarch of the Civil Rights Movement, has passed away at 98 Ms. Height was among the coalition of African American leaders who pushed civil rights to the center of the American political stage after World War II, and she was a key figure in the struggles for school desegregation, voting rights, employment…
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Schomburg Center Director to Retire
Howard Dodson, director of Harlem’s Schomburg Center, will be stepping down in early 2011 Howard Dodson, whose wide-ranging acquisitions and major exhibitions have raised the profile of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and burnished its reputation as the premier institution of its kind, plans to retire as its director in 2011. The…
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Cheruiyot Sets Boston Marathon Course Record
The second man named Robert K. Cheruiyot to win the Boston Marathon did so in record fashion yesterday Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot won the 114th Boston race Monday, finishing in 2:05:52 to shatter by 82 seconds the course record set by four-time winner Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, who’s not related. American Ryan Hall, who finished third last…
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Check It Out: James Johnson Cemented in Playoff Legend
Uh, James? If you’re going to foul, you’re going to want to do it a little harder than that.