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Some to Boycott Meeting With Holder
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is following up on his promise to meet with news media representatives Thursday and Friday in the wake of outrage over the Justice Department’s leak investigations, but it’s an open question whether journalists of color will be present. Holder “is expected to meet this week with the Washington bureau…
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Is 'Black Twitter' a Fad?
(The Root) — I went to a very white school for undergrad. Out of a campus of 1,000, there were roughly 20 black people, myself included. One of my most vivid memories is sitting and talking with a couple of friends, all black, in one of the campus lobbies. That’s it. Just talking. Across the…
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A Feast for the Senses, Every Year in Seattle
(The Root) — As Seattle emerges from the rains of winter and spring and heads into the somewhat less rainy months of summer, we citizens of Rain City shed the fleeces, roll down the windows and try to remember where we put the sunscreen. It’s festival weather, and one staple of the season is Festival…
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White Writer, Black Characters: Bad Idea?
(The Root) — “I’m a well-known writer of women’s fiction. I want to incorporate black characters into my books. How does a white woman write black women correctly? For example, is it disrespectful to have a black woman have a bit of a thing for white men? What’s the best way to introduce a black…
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First Lady and Kerry Washington Push for the Arts
(The Root) — Students from the Savoy Elementary School in Washington, D.C., crooned, somersaulted, Lindy Hopped and re-enacted scenes from the 1970s film Grease on Friday as a way to flex their school’s new muscles in arts education. They performed in the gym to an audience of their peers and two distinguished ladies cheering in…
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A Bad Science Experiment Doesn't Make Me a Criminal
When high schooler Kiera Wilmot was arrested and expelled from her school for a failed, explosive science experiment, she was afraid. But now she’s speaking out about her ordeal on the ACLU’s blog. I don’t think police should have been involved because I’m a good student for one. And two, it was a big deal,…
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Black Teens Create Bicycle Powered Water Filtration System To Provide Clean Drinking Water
Representing a team of inventors who designed the bicycle-powered water filtration system, the young innovators—Elliot and Payton Karr— presented the device to President Barack Obama during the third Annual White House Science Fair, highlighting the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country, last April.…
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Obama, Blacks and Personal Responsibility
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama addressed freshly minted African American graduates over the weekend, reopening a debate that has dogged him since he was a candidate. On such occasions, how much emphasis should he give to addressing the “personal responsibility” of African Americans? How much should he focus instead on the responsibility of…
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Fixing Journalism's Class and Color Crisis
Saying that we are witnessing the resegregation of the American media, Farai Chideya delivers an incisive piece at the Nation about the face of journalism today. When I was a kid, my family loved watching science fiction films and television shows. Some of them, from Star Trek to Soylent Green, featured a multiracial band of…
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School a Beacon of Hope in Nigeria
(The Root) — Whenever northern Nigeria has been in the news in recent months, the stories are usually about killings and kidnappings by Boko Haram — a radical Islamist insurgency group that has killed some 2,000 people and kidnapped others in the region since its emergence in 2002. The slayings included several people killed during…