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
Arkansas Deputy Gets His Karma After Racist Video Spreads Online
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Tweets from the Storm
Bob Cesca, aka @bobcesca_go, noticed a curious thing as the snow begins to pile up I don’t see a lot of anti-socialism teabaggers out there plowing the streets themselves. Zap.
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Family Affair: "Serious About Adopting from Haiti? Start Now"
A bit on Haitian adoption from KJ Dell’Antonia over on Double X The zeitgeist is wrong. Writers for the New York Times, Newsweek, others: all wrong. Anyone with the money, spiritual wherewithal, time, and vocation to adopt a child from Haiti should start now. There were 380,000 orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti even before…
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Listen Up! "$7.2B for Broadband Largely Unallocated"
From NPR’s Morning Edition: The Obama administration’s stimulus package includes $7.2 billion to extend broadband Internet access to parts of the country where it’s not widely available. The government has given out just a fraction of that money so far — and some applicants for the funding say major telecom companies are trying to block…
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Youngest Gitmo Detainee Heads to Trial
Is there such thing as being too young to be a combatant in a war? That question is being raised as Omar Khadr gets set to stand trial for allegedly throwing a grenade and killing a soldier in Afghanistan at the age of fifteen. From The Washington Post The struggle against al-Qaeda has thrown up…
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White House Civil Rights Concert
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How Illegal Immigration Hurts Black America
In October 2008, amidst claims that one of its subsidiaries was knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, North Carolina poultry producer House of Raeford Farms initiated a systematic conversion of its workforce. Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid that nabbed 300 undocumented workers at a Columbia Farms processing plant in Columbia, S.C., a spooked House of…
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LGBT People of Color Need More Than Health Insurance
The health care debate is still raging across the country, and ensuring that it moves forward so that all Americans have access to affordable and high-quality health insurance is a critical first step. But acquiring and keeping health insurance coverage is only half the battle for millions of Americans. New research from the Center for…
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A Portrait of Black America on the Eve of the 2010 Census
There are 40 million black Americans on the eve of the 2010 Census. We are 12.3 percent of the U.S. population down from 14.8 percent of the population in 2000. African Americans became the nation’s second-largest minority group in the first decade of the 21st century. WHERE WE LIVE More than half of black Americans…
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Slavery 2010
“I freed a thousand slaves,” Harriet Tubman famously said. “I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” With a black man occupying the White House, and the nation grappling with a wrenching recession, and celebrating the contributions of African Americans to this nation’s history, this seems an opportune moment…