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4 Questions With Anthony Hamilton
Soul singer Anthony Hamilton was part of the all-star lineup at this year’s UNCF: An Evening of Stars, which honors stellar students who have overcome huge obstacles to get their education. Sharing the stage with Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild, Erykah Badu and Patti LaBelle, Hamilton was on deck to celebrate some impressive students, including history-making…
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Black Pilot to Create Classroom in the Sky
In high school, Barrington Irving was a football star who never dared to imagine a career in aviation until he met a United Airlines pilot who asked him if he’d ever considered flying. A few years later he was in college on a full scholarship, studying aeronautical engineering. By age 23 Irving, born in Jamaica…
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Bias Shows in Duke Study on College Majors
The New Math column will focus on exploring the various crisis points that are floating in the national conversation. Nothing is off-limits, from economic theory to global development to the interplay between politics and community action. Ultimately, we will try to answer one key question that is sure to set the tone of 2012: What does…
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Obama's 'Built to Last' Economy
The State of the Union address is framed as one that sets the year’s legislative agenda, but in an election year it serves double duty as a campaign speech that expresses a vision for a second term. At moments, with rousing applause from the Democratic caucus, President Obama’s assertive address on Tuesday evening resembled a…
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Survey: Obama's Base Focused on Jobs
As he prepares to give the State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama has reason to be cautiously optimistic about the support he will get from his base for his re-election bid. However, to cement their support, he will need to focus on the issues that are most important to them in the…
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NPR Loses Another Black Male Voice
Alex Kellogg, Wall St. Journal Alum, Leaves After 14 Months Alex P. Kellogg, one of NPR’s two black male on-air journalists, has left the network after 14 months on the job, Kellogg told Journal-isms on Monday. Kellogg’s departure reaffirms that the network’s decades-old issues regarding diversity have yet to be solved. They are often attributed…
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Daily Job Lead: Representative for Clean Vehicles Program
Are you passionate about environmental sustainability? Do you have experience with campaign planning? The Union of Concerned Scientists, a leading science-based nonprofit organization, is currently seeking a full-time Washington, D.C., representative to work with its Clean Vehicles Program. The position involves planning, coordinating and participating in outreach efforts in support of UCS’ national transportation-policy agenda.…
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Do Black Entrepreneurs Have Workers' Backs?
Survey Shows Black Small-Business Owners Have Big Plans to Offer Retirement Benefits When the CEO of Megen Construction Co. was asked last Tuesday if his firm had an employee-retirement plan, Evans N. Nwankwo (pdf) immediately replied, “Of course.” He then summarized why black entrepreneurs should, if possible, follow his lead. “We may be a minority…
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Watch It Live: New Protests, New Leadership
Join The Root as we live-stream WGBH TV’s Basic Black program, which will focus on the past year of protests at home and abroad. Viewers can watch live online and chat with us as experts discuss how recent protests focus less on leaders and more on the masses. Panelists will discuss the new role of…
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VIDEO: Toddler Shows Off Science Smarts
It would be pretty impressive for a 2 1/2-year-old to count the grapes his dad set out on the table while he ate his cereal. Romanieo Golphin Jr. does that, but he also identifies models of oxygen, carbon, lithium and boron and answers questions like, “Which atom has four electrons outside the nucleus?” and “What…