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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Why Sen. Graham Got It Wrong
Sen. Lindsey Graham’s brief on behalf of beleaguered white men was delivered with a honeyed tongue and a swift blow from the first day of the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. His argument is instilled in his central thesis: If a white man had made the same statements as those made by Judge Sotomayor…
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168 Feared Dead in Iran Plane Crash
From CNN: “A plane crashed Wednesday in northwestern Iran, state television reported. All 168 aboard were believed to be dead. The passenger plane is thought to have crashed near the Iranian city of Qazvin, Iranian Press TV reported. The Russian-made Tupolev plane went down near Jannat-abad village near Qazvin at 11:33 a.m. on Wednesday, the…
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Toward an ‘Authentic’ Black Barbie
As a child, Barbie was the fantasy version of how I envisioned my grown-up, glamorous life: closets full of gorgeous dresses and sparkling jewels, my choice of high-powered careers, and without question, fabulous hair. My dolls shared the names of soap opera characters, such as “Dominique” for Diahann Carroll’s iconic Dynasty diva. I used real…
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Staying Fit on a Fixed Budget
With respect to the health economists over at Yale University who conducted this study, finding out being jobless could make people with already bad habits exacerbate their problems is like being told smoking is domestic violence against your body. It’s pretty much a given at this point, no? Nevertheless, according to their report while lay-offs…
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Invisible Woman
One recent Saturday afternoon, a friend and I were in a newly-hip part of LA grocery-shopping in one of those stores that caters to the Urban Affluent. On our way out, we were in the elevator that goes to the garage, when we heard someone coming toward the elevator. So we held the door. A…
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Remembering Billie Holiday
Born Eleanora Fagan, the illegitimate child of Sadie Fagan and Clarence Holiday, in Philadelphia. Both of her parents were still their teens when she was born. Soon after her birth, Sadie Fagan returned to Baltimore’s Fells Point to raise her child alone. Captions by John D. Murph Billie’s childhood in Baltimore was rough. She was…
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Round 2…Fight! A Wrap-Up of Sotomayor's Second Day
From the homie Adam Serwer on The American Prospect: A PARTY OF RICK LAZIOS. Several GOP Senators, including Hatch, Kyl, and Sessions, attempted to faze Sotomayor through some pretty insistent questioning about her views on race. Sotomayor, for her part, was unmoved: her calm, staccato delivery never wavered. Her composure made Lindsey Graham’s reading of…
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The Search for Self
While I am not so inclined, there are alot of black people using DNA to search for thier African roots. It’s not that I’m not curious, it’s just that I don’t know, once I spend that money and find out, how that information will enrich my life. Are any of you curious about your African…
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Hearings Through the Looking Glass
“I am a Brooklynite, born and bred—a first-generation American on my father’s side, barely second-generation on my mother’s.” —Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg I am who I am in the first place because of my parents . . . My father was brought to this country as an infant. . . He grew up in poverty.…
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Sonia Sotomayor's Confirmation Hearing: The Drinking Game
The first session of judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing was a meaningless display of platitudes. Some Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, like Lindsey Graham, saw the writing on the wall: “Unless you have a complete meltdown, you are going to be confirmed,” he told her. And with that said, just about everyone else in…