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Liberian President: Give Money to Global Health Fund
Writing at the Huffington Post, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf urges donors to support the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, saying that it has helped her nation care for its sick and strengthen preventive health care measures. It would have been impossible to make these strides towards defeating these diseases without the international…
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Crazy Talk: Ohio School Bans Afro Puffs and Braids?
Hopefully this isn’t true. It’s being reported today that a school in Ohio has banned, well, just about 75 percent of reasonable hairstyles for school-age African-American girls with natural hair. No “Afro puffs” (the style that results when your hair isn’t straight and you pull it back) and no “small twisted braids.” If this really…
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Should Fewer Students Go to College?
(The Root) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is clearly not afraid to court controversy. He has fought for bans on smoking and large sodas, despite his efforts sparking criticism and ridicule. The mayor has found himself provoking critics again with his comments earlier this month about which students should attend college. During his…
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Bill Cosby's Argument Needs Tweaking
Shaun Ossei-Owusu at the Huffington Post parses Bill Cosby’s tough love toward the black community and finds areas of his argument that need improvement. Ossei-Owusu urges Cosby and others to distinguish between structural racism (prison industrial complex, underfunded public school schools, etc.) and the “cultural explanations” of inequality. Critics are right when they point…
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Alabama County May Change Voting Rights
(The Root) — Drive beyond the tall iron gates of Highland Lakes in Shelby County, Ala., where homes range from $350,000 to a couple of million, and you’ll see that change has come to the South. Children of different races play together outside, while adults tend the yard or jog along the roads and trails.…
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Job-Hunting Journos Duped by Fake Paper
How desperate are some journalists to find newspaper work in this era of cutbacks and layoffs? Nine or 10 journalists are reported to have fallen for a scam in which a 25-year-old accused con artist created a fake online newspaper. They joined his “staff.” Joshua Brian Randolph was in the Hall County, Ga., Detention Center…
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50 Years After George Wallace's Stand
(The Root) — Fifteen years after Vivian Malone and James Hood successfully enrolled at the University of Alabama, I had my first day of classes in August of 1978 at the “Capstone of Higher Education” — the state’s flagship. On June 11, 1963, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, an iconic segregationist, stood in the door…
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Touch Her Hair, but Stay Away From Mine
(The Root) — If you’re in New York City anytime Thursday or Friday, drop by Union Square to experience “You Can Touch My Hair,” a public art exhibit sponsored by the website Un’ruly, “a place for black hair.” As part of the exhibit, “strangers from all walks of life will have the welcomed opportunity to…
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How Holder Would Have Done Things Differently
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told visiting journalists of color Monday that if the Justice Department had to conduct its recent leak investigations over again, it would give news organizations notice “so as not to give the impression that journalists were feeling criminalized and the target of the investigation,” according to Hugo Balta, president of the…
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What Lautenberg's Death Means for Cory Booker
The death of New Jersey Sen, Frank Lautenberg, the “liberal lion” who served five terms, has changed the political landscape of the Garden State, especially for Newark Mayor Cory Booker. While Booker is praising the late politician as a “true champion” who “worked to make America a stronger, healthier and safer place to live,” others…