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NY Times Publisher Strikes Back Against Claims About Ousted Editor
Baquet Calls Glenn Greenwald Criticism “Idiotic” Update: Ravi Somaiya, New York Times: Times Publisher Denies Gender Figured in Top Editor’s Dismissal (May 17) Update: Howard Kurtz, Fox News: Sulzberger, under siege, rips Jill Abramson for poor management (May 17) “Gossip overshadowed the history-making moment for Dean Baquet. He became the first African-American to head the…
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The Doll Test for Racial Self-Hate: Did It Ever Make Sense?
The landmark 1954 civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education is credited with shutting down “separate but equal” education for African-American kids and paving the way for school integration. Its other legacy? The tradition of questioning small children about black and white dolls in order to measure their sentiments about race. The “doll test,”…
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New York Times Picks 1st Black Executive Editor
Veteran Journalist Is First African American in Role Dean Baquet, managing editor of the New York Times and former top editor at the Los Angeles Times, was named executive editor on Wednesday after Jill Abramson stepped down from the New York newspaper’s top editorial job. “Baquet, 57, becomes the first African American in the job. “It is…
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60 Years After Brown v. Board, Education Is Still the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
Sixty years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated public schools violated our basic equal rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution—a decision that gave birth, in large part, to the civil rights movement in our country. But while the Brown v. Board of Education case is a historic event to be celebrated,…
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Firsthand Reporting of Nigeria’s Abducted Schoolgirls
“Too Terrifying for Words,” Says One Who Escaped “CNN’s Nima Elbagir, Lillian Leposo and Nick Migwe made the dangerous journey to Chibok, Nigeria, to gather firsthand accounts of the abduction of the schoolgirls — and how people in the northeastern town are still living in fear,” according to an editor’s note introducing this CNN story…
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Millions Changed Their Race on the 2010 Census
Many Hispanics Don’t Claim a Race; Unusual Rise in Indians “Millions of Americans counted in the 2000 census changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when they filled out their 2010 census forms, according to new research presented at the annual Population Association of America meeting last week,” D’Vera Cohn wrote Monday for the Pew Research…
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Study: US Teachers Don’t Reflect the Diversity of Students
A new study from the Center for American Progress and the National Education Association shows that the racial and ethnic backgrounds of U.S. teachers don’t reflect the diversity of their students. According to the study, nearly half of students who attend public schools are members of minority groups, while less than 1 in 5 of…
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The Racist Roots of the Black Comic Book Villain
In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which opened Friday, actor Jamie Foxx plays Max Dillon, a dorky genius, uncomfortable in his own skin, locked out of enjoying the fruits of his own labor at science-technology company Oscorp by supervisors who belittle him. But after a horrific lab accident—as is often the case in comic books—Foxx’s body and…
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A Raisin Still in the Sun
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 77: Which pioneering play introduced…
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Maybe White Girls Should Play With Black Dolls
When we hear about the importance of multicultural toys, it’s often in the context of giving black girls dolls that look like them to support their healthy self-image. While this is no doubt important, I wonder why we don’t do more to encourage white girls to play with diverse dolls, too. Let me explain. As…