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Black Gay HIV Outreach Ditches 'Homoboy' Gimmick
The federal government has launched its first targeted effort to reach African-American men who have sex with men about the need to know their HIV status, according to the Bay Area Reporter. The campaign, dubbed “Know Where You Stand,” aims to increase HIV testing among black MSM (men who have sex with men) ages 18…
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Hooray for Twitter's Black Tilt
Twitter’s black tilt is wonderful. The big story is not that it’s sketchy to even notice it. Nor is the big story that the general level of “blacktags” is not that of a graduate seminar. The big news is that America is talking black. There is so much good about this that it’s hard to…
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Fox News Chief Pushing N.J. Gov. Christie
A lengthy cover story in New York magazine makes the argument that Roger Ailes, who heads Fox News, badly wants to play Republican kingmaker for the 2012 presidential election and that his ideal candidate is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. “A few months ago, Ailes called Chris Christie and encouraged him to jump into the…
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White People Face the Worst Racism?
Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study by researchers at Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The authors of “Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing” found that both whites…
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Media Mute on Malcolm X's Birthday?
On Malcolm X’s 86th Birthday, Media Likely to Be Muted In New York, where the iconic black nationalist was based for the most prominent part of his career, and where he was assassinated in 1965, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture plans “A Critical Discussion of the New Biography — ‘Malcolm X: A…
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Transcript: Obama's Middle East Speech
Read the remarks of President Barack Obama on the Middle East and North Africa, delivered today at the State Department: Remarks of President Barack Obama — as Prepared for Delivery “A Moment of Opportunity” U.S. Department of State May 19, 2011 As Prepared for Delivery — I want to thank Hillary Clinton, who has traveled…
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Intellectual Property: Owning What's Yours
What would you do if you were the next Jean-Michel Basquiat, selling your original art — silk-screened T-shirts — out of the trunk of your car? What if your child created a software program for fun that could be worth billions of dollars? What if you were a musician whose latest release played in clubs…
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Savoring Chocolate Portraits
Photographer Lyle Ashton Harris is known for turning the camera on himself, donning masks or high heels and fishnets to portray everyone from Billie Holiday to a boxer to a transvestite prostitute. Call it performance photography. But there’s also a more taciturn side to the artist, where he turns the camera on other subjects, letting…
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Is Youth for Western Civilization a White Nationalist Group?
Alex Johnson of MSNBC is reporting that last weekend, several hundred right-wing political activists gathered for a rally in the German city of Cologne to protest the “Islamization” of the West and immigration policies that they contend threaten “Western culture.” They included representatives of Vlaams Belang, a Belgian organization that changed its name and liberalized…
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Passing the Buck on Immigration?
Throughout the past two years, President Obama has repeatedly mentioned a need for America to “fix the broken immigration system.” He’s emphasized the importance of tight enforcement, as well as a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. But while his administration has been holding down the…