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The Ultimate Performance-Enhancing Drug? Sleep
Editor’s note: Arianna Huffington has spent years building a media empire that includes the popular website Huffington Post, and she is, by any measure, a success. But in 2007 she collapsed at her desk from stress and exhaustion, breaking a bone in her face and injuring an eye. That trauma was the beginning of a…
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Dad: Stowaway Teen Missed Africa
The 15-year-old Hawaiian Airlines stowaway had problems with his life in America, particularly at school, and longed to return to Africa, the boy’s father said in an interview, USA Today reports. The Somali-born teenager, who miraculously survived a five-hour flight to Hawaii from California in the wheel well of a plane, was having difficulties adjusting…
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Tufts Conference Examines Barack Obama and American Democracy
Some of America’s leading public intellectuals, scholars and activists gathered at Tufts University April 16-18 for the fifth annual Barack Obama and American Democracy conference. Michael Eric Dyson’s exhilarating opening keynote offered a rich intellectual and political framework for principled criticism of the Obama administration’s political and moral failures with a balanced appreciation of…
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6 Steps to Move From College Debt to Financial Success
Editor’s note: This is part 2 in a five-part series on growing and maintaining wealth. Read part 1. I grew up thinking that a college degree would be my ticket to wealth or at least entree into the upper echelons of the middle class. After spending most of my 20s digging my way out of…
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Ohio Teacher Fired for Telling Student ‘We Don’t Need Another Black President’
A science teacher in Fairfield, Ohio, was officially fired Thursday after facing accusations that he told a black student the nation did not need another black commander in chief, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. According to the news site, Gil Voigt, who had been on unpaid leave since December, was fired after his termination was recommended…
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Black America Needs a ‘Let’s Move’ Campaign Against Smoking
In recent years, promoting healthy eating to help prevent a bevy of health woes has become the primary focus for health advocates within the black community. Thanks in part to greater media attention and high-profile representatives, other issues have also finally begun to win much-needed attention, including breast cancer and AIDS. But one of the black…
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DC Arts Patron Helping Student Attend Summer Ivy League Program
When Peggy Cooper Cafritz, a Washington, D.C., arts patron, saw on the news that a local teenager would not be able to attend a prestigious summer Ivy League program because of the price, she was spurred to action. She called the station to say she would help Zach Wood, whose story aired on the station…
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Children’s Fantasy Fiction Needs More Characters of Color
In his 1976 essay The Devil Finds Work, James Baldwin wrote, “No one, I read somewhere, a long time ago, makes his escape personality black.” Baldwin was talking about the movies, but he might as well have been talking about children’s books. When I was a kid, I loved reading works like J.R.R. Tolkien’s The…
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Note to Democrats: If You Lose in November, Don’t Blame Black Voters
As midterm elections near and pundits predict Republican blowouts in November, Democrats appear poised to run that classic racial sob story if they lose control of the Senate: The black folks did it. RealClearPolitics actually gives Democrats a 1 percent edge over Republicans in a generic congressional ballot, and even Quinnipiac shows voters viewing Democrats as the “lesser…
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Detroit Journalist Wins Pulitzer Prize for Commentary on City’s Financial Crisis
Free Press Columnist Wrote Passionately About Fiscal Crisis Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary Monday “for his columns on the financial crisis facing his hometown, written with passion and a stirring sense of place, sparing no one in their critique.” Henderson appeared to be the…