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 Hits: Unemployment Drops to 9.7%
According to The Washington Post, the January unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly as employers cut 20,000 jobs The unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly in January to 9.7 percent from 10 percent while employers shed 20,000 jobs, the government said Friday. The rate dropped because a survey of households found the number of employed Americans rose by 541,000,…
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Single-Minded: Single Doesn’t Mean Spinster
Googling oneself is always a dangerous enterprise. No matter how you may see yourself—hilarious, haughty, a bit hopeful—others will undoubtedly see you a different way—delusional, detrimental to society. And despite that ego-deflating fact, the periodic urge to type your name in an empty search box can seem so … productive. It is not. Unless playing…
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BREAKING NEWS: Landrieu Elected Mayor of New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS—Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu appears to have routed five major challengers in today’s mayoral primary, riding extraordinary biracial support to claim a rare first-round victory. With 90 of the city’s 366 precincts counted, Landrieu had 64 percent of the vote, according to WWL-TV. His closest challenger, businessman Troy Henry, had 15 percent, according to the…
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James Perry: The Man Who Wants To Run New Orleans
This weekend, voters in the New Orleans Democratic Party primary will begin the process of electing the city’s first new mayor since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. The race has been heated since the beginning—now 12 candidates are vying to replace the discredited C. Ray Nagin as head of the city government. It’s a crowded…
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NEWS STAND: Reshaping California, Reed on Precious, Toyota Apology and more..
MINORITIES WARY OF CALIFORNIA REDISTRICTING For the first time, voting districts for California’s Legislature will not be drawn behind closed doors in the backrooms of the state Capitol. Instead, a first-in-the-nation citizen commission will do the job, and thousands of everyday Californians are jostling to serve on the panel, reports the Los Angeles Times. But…
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Twit Pic: NBC's Cafeteria FAIL
Got this pic courtesy of Questlove of The Roots (@questlove on Twitter). We appreciate the effort NBC but…no.
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SCOTUSblog’s ‘Colorblind’ Black History Month Commemoration
It’s been a long time since I carefully counted the speakers and panelists at academic conferences on civil rights to determine how many scholars of color were included, but I’ll admit that when I looked at the lineup for SCOTUSblog’s month-long “Race and the Supreme Court” series in commemoration of Black History Month, the lack…
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Quick Hits: Harry Gets an 'A' for Effort from NAACP
The NAACP graded Congress and gave Harry Reid an ‘A’ despite the recent kerfuffle The Nevada Democrat may have raised hackles with his pre-election comments describing President Obama as “light-skinned” with no “Negro accent,” but his voting record was something the 100-year-old civil rights group cheered in a new report card out later today. The…
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Read/React: "Is Gay the New Black?"
The Urban Politico asks a question likely to get people fired up. Check out an excerpt of their staff weighing in below The Janitor’s 2 Cents: I don’t think that the Gay struggle should be compared to Black struggle, but probably not for reasons that you might think. I understand the attraction of wanting to…