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2 Black-Oriented Websites to Collaborate
NBC News’ theGrio.com and Interactive One’s NewsOne.com have decided to share news and resources in what the two companies are touting as “an expanded platform for African-American journalism.” Theoretically, each site will now have available the resources of NBC News, Radio One, TV One, Reach Media’s syndicated Tom Joyner radio show, theGrio.com, NewsOne.com, HelloBeautiful.com and theUrbanDaily.com.…
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Blogging While Brown Conference Recap
2011 Black Weblog Awards Winners Best Blog Design Single Black Male Best Blog Post Series Single Black Male Best Business Blog In Her Shoes Best Culture Blog From Ashy to Classy Best Cooking or Food Blog Black Girls Guide to Weight Loss Best Faith-Based Blog DC District Diva Best Fashion or Beauty Blog Afrobella Best…
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For My Brother, It Was Rocket Science
The final space shuttle launch this week takes me back to a time when my brother Charles turned our attic into a spaceship where the neighborhood kids would play astronaut. The captain would sit at an old school desk, steering a course through the front window, a portal to outer space and endless adventure. The…
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CNN Cancels Eliot Spitzer
CNN on Wednesday canceled the political talk show “In the Arena” with Eliot Spitzer, filling his 8 p.m. time slot with Anderson Cooper’s “AC360” and unveiling a fall lineup that includes a new general news program with Erin Burnett, formerly of CNBC. The lineup includes no journalists of color. When the former New York governor…
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Shuttle Stars: America's Black Astronauts
From Chicago, Lawrence was selected by the Air Force for astronaut training in 1967. He died a short time later in the crash of an F-104 fighter jet while instructing a student pilot at the controls. Lawrence, who held a Ph.D. in chemistry from Ohio State University, never got to fulfill his dream, but he…
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15 Facts You Ought to Know About Race
Race is undeniably felt on a social level, but biologically the concept doesn’t hold up. This discrepancy is illustrated in a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, “RACE: Are We So Different?” A traveling project of the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, the exhibit explores…
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Michelle Obama Tells Young South Africans They Are 'Really Cool'
Throughout first lady Michelle Obama’s trip to Africa, The Root will be running selected press pool reports. FLOTUS POOL REPORT 2 — THURS., 6/23/11 At the University of Cape Town, the first lady began her conversation with girls and boys selected from nearby townships at about 2 p.m. The 55 students all attend high school. There…
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Review: 'Is Marriage for White People?'
When titles for this book were being considered, perhaps Why Middle Class Black Women Can’t Find a Man and How the Whole Problem Could Be Solved if They Would Just Marry White Guys didn’t have quite the ring the publisher was after. But that’s pretty much what Stanford Law professor Ralph Richard Banks’ Is Marriage…
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We Must Educate All Our Young Men
Since this nation was founded more than two centuries ago, there has been nearly constant tension between tradition and evolution. Yet over the years, from the Civil War to the civil rights movement, the forces of progress have haltingly advanced, and continue to do so today. After all, just 50 years ago businesses still hung…
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Not Your Typical Guide to Black New York
For years, African Americans visiting New York made sure to take a trip to the epicenter of the city’s black history — Harlem. But in the past decade, as the uptown community has undergone a dramatic revitalization, New York’s best-kept secret has exploded in popularity. Now tourists from around the world visit the sites of…