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Daily Job Lead: Product Manager
Buffalo, N.Y., company Synacor is currently looking for a product manager to help plan, develop and support the company’s line of software and server products. Synacor’s product manager helps ensure that the company’s goals and expectations are met through the company’s wide range of software products. In addition to overseeing product projects from the start,…
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Racist-Rockgate and the Politics of Absurdity
You can’t make this stuff up. As if the coyote-shootin’, secession-talkin’, global-climate-change denyin’, George Wallace-channelin’ twit from Texas — otherwise known as Gov. Rick Perry — didn’t already have enough trouble proving he was ready for prime time, here comes a Washington Post story alleging that he hunted at and entertained guests at a hunting…
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Tobacco Companies Resist Graphic Labels
A federal court judge expects to rule by late October on whether the Food and Drug Administration can require new, strident text warnings and images to be added to cigarette packaging that could affect the one in five African Americans who still smoke. At a Sept. 21 hearing in the U.S. District Court for the…
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Pinpointing DNA Ancestry in Africa
Before the advent of DNA testing, scholars relied on shipping records that listed the African ports from which slaves were exported to determine where in Africa the African-descended population of the United States originated. But these lists were quite limited because they noted only the port of departure and not the actual community from which…
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Revisiting the Story of Black Los Angeles
Who was Los Angeles’ first black mayor? No, it wasn’t Tom Bradley, who served from 1973 to 1993. Nearly 200 years earlier, Francisco Reyes, an Afro-Mexican, led the fledgling city of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula (the Town of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels…
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Daily Job Lead: Interactive Developer
Minnetonka, Minn.-based Jobs2Web is currently looking for an interactive developer to help develop and maintain the startup’s collection of Web applications, including Java, Flex and ColdFusion, among others. Jobs2Web’s interactive developer is also responsible for communicating directly with internal clients, such as the sales department, to ensure that the website is leveraging their initiatives. Ideal…
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Floyd Mayweather's Weak Punch for Charity
There’s nothing shy about Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr., one of boxing’s greatest champions. He doesn’t care if you like him. Just help make him get richer. The undefeated pugilist made about $40 million for beating Victor Ortiz recently. But Mayweather’s real talent is controlling his financial affairs. The New York Times reports that he “earns…
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Tea Party: How Much Worse Could It Get?
In his Miami Herald column, Leonard Pitts Jr. says that the genteel, pragmatic Republicanism of the past has been supplanted by a pitchforks-and-torches mentality, a funhouse-mirror distortion of traditional conservatism. And he’s wondering how much worse it could get if Obama does win re-election. This country is in a world of hurt if the likes…
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Some Black Critics of Obama Are Right
Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy recently penned an opinion piece for CNN entitled “Why Obama’s Black Critics Are Wrong.” He contends that President Obama’s African-American critics have focused on his “racial bona fides” and that “throughout President Barack Obama’s political career, he has been dogged by … accusations that he is not ‘black enough.’…