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Black in the USSR: 3 Generations of a Russian Family
In 1932, the poet Langston Hughes spent Christmas in the “dusty, coloured, cotton-growing South” of Uzbekistan, then one of the Soviet Union’s Asian republics. Hughes had been in Moscow, working on a film critical of American race relations, but the project was abandoned, in part because the Soviets were then seeking official diplomatic recognition and improved…
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Media Outlets Opine That Donald Trump Is Channeling Demagogues
HuffPost: Trump Is No Longer Entertainment N.Y. Times Compares Candidate With Past Demagogues “Earlier today, the candidate currently leading in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination called for a ‘total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,’ ” Arianna Huffington wrote Monday for the Huffington Post. “That was, of course, Donald Trump.…
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Historic Presidency, Historic Opposition: The Legacy of President Barack Obama
Barack Obama is going to be in the history books. This will happen regardless of his critics or his fans, both of which are legion. It will happen regardless of who wins the White House in November 2016. It will happen whether you love him adoringly, deride him with cynicism or hate him with all…
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Shocking Chicago Video Released After Legal Challenge by Media
Officer Unloaded Gun on Black Teen 16 Times in 15 Seconds The shocking and disturbing video showing the fatal police shooting of a black Chicago teenager was released Tuesday only after lawsuits by journalists and news organizations — a yearlong delay that has prompted criticism of the city’s black leadership, others in the media, and…
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The Life and Legacy of Tech Innovator Hank Williams to Be Celebrated in NY
The life and works of tech entrepreneur Hank Williams, who worked tirelessly to champion diversity in the ever-growing technology field, is to be celebrated Saturday at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City at 9 a.m. Williams, 50, died Sunday following a battle with pneumonia and myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart, which left…
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Why I Agree With Taye Diggs: When We Call Biracial Kids ‘Black,’ We Disrespect Their ‘White’ Side
Taye Diggs is talking about something that has always boggled my mind: why we call biracial people (namely, Americans who have both black and white parents) black. I’ve always wondered why we black Americans accepted that one-drop rule created by segregationist white Americans during chattel slavery: the rule that said that people who are born…
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Tech Innovator and Diversity Advocate Hank Williams Dies at 50
Hank Williams, a champion for diversity in technology who worked tirelessly to demand that companies rethink hiring practices and initiatives to employ women and people of color, died Sunday. Williams, 50, a resident of New York, had been hospitalized for over a week while battling “pneumonia and myocarditis, which can be caused by a viral…
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Apple and Thurgood Marshall College Fund Build Tech Pipeline for HBCU Scholars
Apple Inc. and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund have partnered to build a pipeline for African-American students into the world’s largest information technology company, with a new internship effort called the Apple HBCU Scholars Program. This year, 31 students from HBCUs will each be awarded $25,000 during their senior year of study. They will also participate…
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The Term ‘White Tears’ Is Funny, but What It Often Leads to Isn’t
There aren’t many recently invented terms in our cultural lexicon that I enjoy using more than I enjoy using “white tears”—the phrase created to describe what happens when certain types of white people either complain about a nonexistent racial injustice or are upset by a nonwhite person’s success at the supposed expense of a white…