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Breaking: People Are Different Colors
This is something my mother very sternly told the teacher of a ceramics class I took as a 7-year-old: You can’t have all the kids paint their vase-in-the-shape-of-a-head sculptures “flesh color,” because not everyone’s flesh is the same color. That was 1988. The concept seems to be catching on! The Cut is reporting that Christian…
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Obama Administration Is 'Deeply Wary' of the Press
“The Obama administration’s aggressive war on leaks and other efforts to control information are without precedent, according to 30 experienced Washington journalists interviewed for a new report released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists,” the Committee reported on Thursday. “The report found that despite President Barack Obama’s promise to head the most open government…
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Setback for AIDS-Vaccine Research
(The Root) — First do no harm. That’s the golden rule of medicine. But a new analysis of a trio of AIDS-vaccine trials shows that’s exactly what happened in two of the three studies. In trials conducted across four continents with a combined total of more than 6,000 participants, vaccines using a flulike virus that…
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Prairie View A&M University Finally Gets Campus Polling Station
For decades, students at Prairie View A&M University who wanted to vote needed to prepare for a small hike if they did not have a car or ride of their own. Voting meant a mile-long walk to the county community center and waiting in line near a busy roadway. But for this year’s November elections, students…
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What's the New Health Care Policy Called Again?
Reactions Differ on “Obamacare,” “Affordable Care Act” “What’s in a name? When it comes to the debate over health care, apparently a lot,” Steve Liesman reported Thursday for CNBC. “In CNBC’s third-quarter All-America Economic Survey, we asked half of the 812 poll respondents if they support Obamacare and the other half if they support the…
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Do You Know the 4 Little Girls' Names?
(The Root) — The identities of the four little girls who died in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Sept. 15, 1963, have been lumped together to serve to reference a point in the struggle for civil rights. The girls came to represent the violence black people endured at the hands of the Ku Klux…
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Millennials Challenge the Status Quo
Today’s youths, like their forebears in the civil rights movement, are turning to strategic protest to challenge the status quo, including fighting to end “Stand your ground” laws, Dani McClain writes at Colorlines. Since July 16 — three days after the George Zimmerman verdict was announced — [Curtis] Hierro and between a dozen and 60…
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Albert Murray, Influential Essayist, Dies
(The Root) — Albert Murray, an intellectual giant and influential critic and novelist who saw black culture and American culture as inextricably intertwined, died Sunday evening in New York City. He was 97. Murray will be remembered as one of the great aesthetic theorists of American culture, specifically for his concept of “the blues aesthetic,”…
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Did I Have a Scottish Ancestor in Africa?
(The Root) — “My family is from Sierra Leone, but we do have a legend of sorts. I think it’s true, but because of the civil war that happened there, it would be quite difficult to get information from Sierra Leone. “My grandfather’s father was supposedly a half-Scottish, half-Greek man. It’s not clear how or…
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What Was the Civil Rights Movement?
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. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About the…