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Depends on What You Mean by 'Black'
For many months, the media has saturated American audiences with analysis of the impact of race on the 2008 presidential campaign. There has also been much discussion about how closely the world is tracking the election. However, there has been remarkably little discussion about whether some of our basic assumptions about race and ethnicity actually…
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The Wonders Down Under
How does your daughter learn about her body? From magazines that feature nipped, tucked and airbrushed size-2 celebrity cover models? From X-rated authors like Karrine Steffans and Zane, and the “Gossip Girls”? From music videos? From her boyfriend? Or from you? This is a rhetorical question. Of course it should be you. Starting around school-age,…
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Why My Great Grandmother's Name Matters
The first time I got a deep glimpse into my family history, I had to leave the room to gather myself. It was around seven years ago, and a genealogist, Rafi Guber, and the comedian Billy Crystal had come to my home to present me with previously unknown information about my great-grandmother, a steely woman…
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Why Blacks Should Consider McCain
The old saying holds that in politics you don’t have to win, you just have to not lose. But what the saying doesn’t tell you is that sometimes what looks like victory is actually a step backward. And that will be the case for black folk should Hillary Clinton win the Democratic Party nomination and…
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Does Race Trump Gender?
Oprah Winfrey has been widely criticized by white feminists who saw her decision to support Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton as a betrayal that put race before gender. Oprah’s pointed response spoke for many black women whose loyalty to gender and race is also being questioned — and tested. “You know, after Iowa, there were…
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Seeing Green In Africa
Last week, much of the world was focused on Microsoft’s attempt to shape the Internet with its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. But just a week earlier, without nearly as much fanfare, Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced his new retirement project that could alter the lives of millions throughout Africa and other parts of the…
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Old School Jams Meet New School Politics
It was “Hot Ice” night at Sugar Hill Lounge in Atlanta’s Underground entertainment district, but the usual Saturday offering of live R&B and reggae music gave way to a more urgent purpose: Drumming up black voter turnout for today’s Georgia’s presidential primary. Billed as a non-partisan, multi-generational Wake Up Call/Town Hall Party for Hope, Change…
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Hopeless Boomers? We Invented Hope
In a recent article on Sen. Ted Kennedy’s powerful endorsement of Barack Obama, New York Times columnist David Brooks suggests that Baby Boomers who developed their political identities in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who have hardened over decades of political conflict, are intrinsically devoid of hope. Instead, the Camelot mystique of the…
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Winning by a Hair
After much prompting by women, the national media, and the African American community, I, speaking on behalf of “my own,” am now comfortable in declaring the candidate I support to be the 44th president of the United States. As I am frequently reminded, I am black and I am a woman. And, given African Americans’…
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Not My Brand of Hope
From the beginning of his presidential campaign, which unofficially began with the release of his second book The Audacity of Hope, Senator Barack Obama has been positioned as an underdog against the Clinton machine. Now, with polls showing him in a virtual dead heat with Sen. Hillary Clinton, the media has constructed his early success…