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Seeing Black and Seeing Red
I loved living in Cambridge, Mass., except when I didn’t. And when I didn’t was when I had left my apartment late at night to walk to the all-night corner grocery store with just that $10 bill stuffed into my pocket, having left my wallet on the bookcase in the hallway. Then, strolling along, soon…
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A Funeral Is Now A Privilege, Not A Right
So it seems out in LA County a growing number of families are leaving their recently deceased relatives out to dry – or in this case, rot and fester. The Los Angeles Times reports that the weak economy has led to a growing number of families leaving their loved ones unclaimed at the morgue. The…
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VIDEO: Liz Cheney Down with the Birthers
Liz Cheney thinks people are made uncomfortable by Obama because he seems reluctant to defend America. But didn’t he have Navy snipers buck three Somali pirates to save an American sea captain of no particular account? Isn’t he still waterboarding and indefinitely imprisoning people like your pops, Liz? Isn’t he applying his gangster in relative…
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When is The Right Time for Black Men to React?
It’s the day after the crazy surrounding Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ arrest. The charges have been dropped and Dr. Gates has provided a full account of his so-called “tumultuous” run-in with the Cambridge police department. However, one thing keeps nagging at me. One of TheRoot’s most avid readers, KDOG, posted an intriguing comment yesterday. He…
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Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Your Epithet Over! NOI, Panthers Clash with Klan
From NewsOne: State police in riot gear rushed a downtown street to break up a standoff Tuesday between hundreds of black and white extremists who exchanged screams of “Black power!” and “White power!” during a protest over the state’s handling of the case of a black man who was run over and dragged by a…
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When "Sorry" Isn't Enough
“Sorry” probably means more in institutional cases when there’s monetary punishment attached. The swim club in Philadelphia that rejected a class of black children recently may well find that they’re VERY sorry for having taken that action. And I suspect the Cambridge Police Department will be doing more than finding its treatment of Harvard professor…
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Losing Your Cool in America
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. had a very bad day. After a long trip home from China, where he was filming his new PBS documentary, “Faces of America,” the Harvard professor was probably looking forward to a little rest. Instead, he was arrested outside of his own Cambridge, Massachusetts home. The official reason for his…
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Skip Gates Speaks
The Root: We’ve all seen the police and media reports around your arrest last Thursday in Cambridge, Mass., Charles Ogletree issued a statement to The Root that included a synopsis of the incident. But what have you been going through since Thursday? Henry Louis Gates Jr.: I’m outraged. I can’t believe that an individual policeman…
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What Do You Call a Black Man with a Ph.D.?
Ain’t nothing post-racial about the United States of America. I say this because my best friend, a well-known, middle-aged, affluent, black man, was arrested on his own front porch after showing his identification to a white police officer who was responding to a burglary call. Though the officer quickly determined that my friend was the…