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Cory Booker: Heroic? Yes. Magic? No
When Cory Booker recently raced into a burning home to help save the life of a neighbor, his act of bravery turned the Newark, N.J., mayor into one of the lead stories of the day. News outlets from CNN to Fox News covered Booker’s heroism. Not to be outdone, fans on Twitter conjured up #corybookerstories…
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Entrepreneurs Keep HBCUs Afloat
Sometime in the early ’80s, before I turned 10, my grandmother told me: “You should go to Howard.” In our family, Howard University was this revered place, partly because one of my uncles had been a quarterback there in the late ’70s. But I dismissed the idea, almost as fiercely as I resisted football, having…
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Your Brain on White People
The co-editor of a book on psychology, neuroscience and how we process race has a fresh perspective on the recent controversy surrounding the lack of racial diversity on HBO’s Girls. In a piece for Salon, Jeremy Adam Smith explains how the media’s “overwhelming whiteness” can actually change our minds, and how we can change them…
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4 Questions With Freeman Hrabowski III
Freeman Hrabowski III is called the general of math and science; he turned a commuter college about 15 minutes from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor into one of the nation’s leading sources for African Americans who receive Ph.D.s in science and engineering. For 20 years now Hrabowski, a native of Birmingham, Ala., has been at the helm…
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Essence Shifts White Male Managing Editor
Essence magazine and its white male managing editor — whom the leading magazine for black women has emphasized had a production, not an editorial role — are parting ways, a spokeswoman told Journal-isms Friday, after right-wing material on his Facebook page was brought to the editors’ attention. The hiring of Michael Bullerdick last July created…
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The Crisis of Black Gender Inequality
In an opinion column for the Times of Trenton, social science professor W. Renee Walker argues that black female-headed households should be at the center of our national dialogue about race. In the 21st century, gender inequality is even more concentrated among African-American female-headed families with children younger than 5 years of age. This group…
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Why Chicago Schools Brought Back Gym
When Kyler Sumter was a student at Edgar Allan Poe Classical Elementary on Chicago’s South Side, it was one of the few schools in the city’s sprawling system to offer physical education classes. During classes, Kyler would do situps, pushups and jumping jacks and play traditional relay games like dodgeball and steal the bacon, she…
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Why Are There No Black US Senators?
Yes, an African American is serving as commander in chief. But looking for a black U.S. senator? Good luck with that. As CNN reports, the lack of diversity in the Senate is growing more alarming by the day. Out of 100 senators, two are Latino and two are of Asian or Pacific Islander ancestry, but…
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Battle of the Budgets
After reviewing President Obama’s budget for the fiscal year 2013, which he released in February, various lawmakers released alternative versions. None of the proposals stand any chance of passing in a split Congress, and many have already been rejected, but as symbolic documents they’re a chance to put fiscal ideals on the record. Here’s a…
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Vogue Italia Promotes 'Rapper Style'
White student leads black high school club: In his role as president of Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s Black Student Union, Michael Watterndorf is working to increase admission of black and Hispanic students to the school. Vogue Italia promotes “rapper style”: It’s the latest from the creator of the “slave earrings” fashion spread:…