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Can a Commercial Solve Racism? These 7 Tried
A good commercial can make you laugh, cry, call your mom or even occasionally buy something you hadn’t intended. But a new ad by Pedigree dog food asks another question: Can a commercial make you get over racism? Pedigree recently launched an ad campaign that ostensibly is about walking your dog, but is actually promoting a…
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NY Mom Furious When Son Fails Regents Exams After Acing Classes
A Brooklyn, N.Y., mother is furious and demanding that her son’s high school properly educate the child after he failed his Regents exams despite acing his classwork in the same subjects, the New York Post reports. “He wasn’t educated,” Annette Renaud told the Post. “He can’t compete with students at Millennium, Brooklyn Tech or Stuyvesant.…
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Community Engagement Offered as Remedy for Negative Media Coverage of Black, Arab and Latino Boys
ASNE Offers “Community-Based Engagement” as Remedy Adults who work with children say news media reporting on boys and men of color reinforces negative narratives about them, according to a new survey, but “news organizations increasingly are using community-based engagement to improve the situation,” according to Mike Fancher, speaking to Journal-isms on behalf of the American…
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How 1 Man Is Using the Unity of the Civil Rights Movement to Empower Black Students in STEM
The book cover looks like that of any other science book, to be honest: White man showing a multicultural group something that looks like displaced atoms. However, Holding Fast to Dreams: Empowering Youth From the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM Achievement is a little more than meets the eye. “It’s a great conversation starter,” Freeman…
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It Pays to Be a Jerk? Not if You’re Black!
The prototypical corporate titan in American business is a jerk. From elementary school on, we’re taught about Andrew Carnegie’s abusive leadership; as adults we’re told that the obnoxious Steve Jobs was a genius and that Donald Trump, for all his hubris and excess, is the American dream personified. And while there was a brief period…
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Tech Pioneers: Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
It was a pleasantly shocking moment that Dara Solomon and Fela Strickland-Smith will always remember. At Black Enterprise’s Entrepreneurs Summit last month, the magazine awarded the sisters a Small Business Award as Family Business of the Year. The recognition is especially surprising because the sisters launched Satori Interactive in 2004 without any entrepreneurial experience, business…
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Liberal Friends, if You’re Worried That Blacks Are Getting Shut Out of Politics, Show Us the Money
In a recent series of rants against the evil of money in politics, prominent progressive public intellectuals have been experimenting with the new narrative that unregulated high-rolling balls of dark campaign cash are fundamentally racist. That’s obviously a racially charged notion. And given the all-powerful “cash rules everything around me” ethos that’s rapidly transforming American…
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It’s Time to Stop Blaming Black-on-Black Crime
For every unarmed black man, woman or child killed by unrestrained police officers, there’s an intellectually impoverished response when black people get visibly upset about it: What about black-on-black crime? There was a time, in another surreal reality not so long ago, when conservative pundits reflexively grimaced at even the mention of it—and, oh, that…
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LeBron James Will Be the Greatest of All Time … Just Give It Time
It’s hard to have any conversation about LeBron James’ greatness as a player without having it degenerate into a Yahoo message-board fight with words like “clutch,” “rings” and “quitter” being thrown around like confetti at a nonexistent Cleveland championship parade. But as a longtime LeBron watcher—who moved to Cleveland during LeBron’s rookie year, supported “the…