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Poisoned Water in Flint, Failing Schools in Detroit: How 1 Law Is Hurting Mich.
Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is in hot and highly contaminated water. Residents in Flint, Mich., have been drinking, bathing in and cooking with contaminated water for over a year, and all signs indicate that Snyder has known about it since Spring of 2015. To make matters worse, on Wednesday morning, teachers in the Detroit…
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Fighting Racism in the Age of Obama
No one said it would be easy. After all, what’s simple about fighting something that’s baked in the cake of American society, that constitutes its original sin? Racism. That’s racism with a big R and a little one. The kind that’s in your face and explicit, and the kind that you can’t grasp with your…
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Spike Lee Announces Oscar Boycott
Another black celebrity has decided to sit out the Oscars in February. Director Spike Lee joins actress Jada Pinkett Smith in protest against the lack of racial diversity among Oscar nominees. For the second consecutive year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science nominated only whites for its major categories. The Twitter hashtag #OscarsSoWhite…
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Top 3 Takeaways From the 4th Democratic Debate
The fourth debate between the candidates for the Democratic nomination for president in Charleston, S.C., Sunday night was an exciting affair if you had never seen or heard of, or had no familiarity with, the candidates. But if you are like most Americans who have any interest in politics, there was not much last night…
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How to Fix That #OscarsStillSoWhite Problem
If you haven’t noticed the steam rising from the Twitter icon on your iPhone, then you may not be aware that once again, the Oscars have been declared #SoWhite. Typically, when this ever-so-shocking event occurs, the narrative dovetails into two discussions: Why do black people want acknowledgment from “these” awards, and why don’t artists show…
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Nikki Haley Makes the Case for Old-School Racism
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley wants to take things back to the “old school.” The establishment’s choice to represent a “sensible” side of Republicanism, Haley’s response to the State of the Union address seemed to target GOP front-runner Donald Trump more than President Barack Obama. “Today we live in a time of threats like few…
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The State of the Union Was Obama’s Exit Interview With the Nation
Many Barack Obama supporters, knowing that Tuesday night was the very last State of the Union by the president, got some funny ideas in their heads. Having vicariously experienced all of the stress, racism and abuse the president has suffered over the last eight years, many were waiting for him to just get brolic onstage—to…
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Journalists Take Aim at Sean Penn’s Interview With Drug Lord in Rolling Stone
“Insult to Journalists” to Give Drug Lord Approval “Almost as soon as Rolling Stone’s first scoop of the year, an interview with the Sinaloa Cartel’s bloody kingpin known as ‘El Chapo,’ was published late Saturday night, the critiques began rolling in,” Caitlin Cruz reported Monday for Talking Points Memo. “Chief among them was an ethical…
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A Story of Perseverance: Hadiyah-Nicole Green Shares Her Path to a Million-Dollar Research Grant
Hadiyah-Nicole Green likens her story to that of The Little Engine That Could. The 34-year-old assistant professor is the first in her family to go to college, let alone earn a doctorate. She’s also broken ground at her alma mater as the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Alabama at…
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Jan. 7, 2008: The Day Hillary Clinton Lost the Black Vote
It was a long time ago in an America we would hardly recognize today: Jan. 7 of 2008. The main conversation around Bill Cosby was his conservative positions, not his choice of home beverage. Tracee Ellis Ross was still Joan and not Rainbow. And Dr. Ben Carson was still just the best neurosurgeon in American history.…