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Herman Cain Out; Says Media 'Spin Hurts'
Has Infidelity Been Elevated as Electoral Issue? “All along, the Herman Cain campaign — which Politico called ‘one of the most hapless and bumbling operations in modern presidential politics’ — has been riveting but improbable,” Edward Wasserman, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington,…
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Your Take: HBCU Funds on Chopping Block
For weeks, HBCU presidents, students and supporters of historically black colleges and universities have been sounding the alarm, concerned that the deficit-reducing congressional “super committee” was targeting federal funding for HBCUs for drastic cuts. In the end, the super committee couldn’t agree on a list of cuts. Does that mean that HBCUs are home free?…
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Young Blacks Want Their Own Businesses
The writers and editors of Businessinsider.com must be sure that most of their readers don’t read Black Enterprise or know any black entrepreneurs (paging Michael Arrington), a conclusion that is also probably true, to a certain extent, for many Americans regardless of race or ethnicity. Most Americans also don’t pay much attention to census reports.…
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Global Warming? Minorities Say Yes
James Ragland will be reassigned to reporting in neighboring Collin County, Texas, while his arrest on a domestic assault charge is adjudicated, Morning News Editor Bob Mong told Journal-isms on Friday. “There’s no way he can continue his column where he isn’t facing some inevitable conflict,” Mong said. “He writes about the criminal justice system,…
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On Black Atheism: Jamila Bey
A recent New York Times article profiled African Americans who don’t believe in God or who have eschewed the faith that many assume is central to the black experience. What does the apparent rise in atheism and agnosticism (pdf) among blacks tell us about the utility of religion for African Americans in today’s social and…
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Daily Job Lead: Fishery Specialist
The New England Fishery Management Council in Newburyport, Mass., is seeking a temporary fishery specialist (for up to two years). The fishery specialist/biologist will assist with fishery-management plans and help prepare documents including environmental-impact statements. The position will also compile meeting summaries, conduct public meetings and analyze environmental, biological, socioeconomic and other technical data. The…
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'The Bell Curve': Veiled White Supremacy
In a blog entry at Atlantic magazine, Ta-Nehisi Coates, responds to an article by Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Beast that examines The Bell Curve. Sullivan argues that the distribution of IQ is slightly different among different racial populations. Coates says the notion that blacks are intellectually inferior to whites is a thinly veiled justification…
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Admin Test Slideshow
Cool-Breeze Air Conditioning supervisor Mike Trent (left) and recently hired Mike Turner install an air conditioner in a Miami Beach hotel on Jan. 6, 2012. The most recent jobs report indicated that 200,000 jobs were created in December, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5 percent. Former Boyz II Men member Michael McCary (second from…
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For Your Holiday Reading List
Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-Hop and Black Politics, Lester K. Spence, (University of Minnesota Press) The American tradition of political protest songs runs rich and deep. Think of Billie Holiday (“Strange Fruit”), Woody Guthrie (“This Land Is Your Land”), Pete Seeger (“If I Had a Hammer”), Bob Dylan (“Blowin’ in the Wind”)…
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New Book Lists More Than 2,000 African Bios
Below is the introduction to the Dictionary of African Biography, which was co-edited by The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr. On November 18, 2011, Professors Emmanuel Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University launched their new Dictionary of African Biography at the African Studies Conference in Washington, DC. The DAB’s 2129 entries…