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Obama Targets Youth Vote at Facebook Town Hall
On the second leg of a three-day town hall tour, President Obama visited Facebook’s Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters for a conversation with “the youth.” Fielding questions from both Facebook users around the country and staffers at the office, he touched on a broad range of subjects, including the deficit, health care and the housing crisis.…
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ANC's Malema on Trial for Hate Speech for South African Struggle Song
The Mail & Guardian is reporting that the trial of ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema for hate speech is entering its second week. Malema is charged with hate speech for singing the South African struggle song “Dubul’ibhunu,” which translates to “Shoot the Boer.” Malema maintains that he has the right to sing the song,…
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HBCU: Morgan State University Receives $28.5 Million NASA Grant
Blackvoicenews.com is reporting that Morgan State University will receive a landmark $28.5 million portion of a massive $95.8 million, five-year grant from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The grant will allow the Baltimore HBCU to conduct research supporting NASA’s earth- and space-science projects. It is the largest in Morgan’s 144-year history and will help the…
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What Africa's Click Tongues Tell of Our Origins
A quirky article by Quentin Atkinson in Science magazine reinforces once again the news that would have surprised so many smart people not so very long ago: that humanity began in Africa. This time, it’s language that gives it away — specifically, those languages with the clicks in them. They’re called Khoi-San (or Khoisan) languages,…
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Obama Fires Back in Debt Speech
Before President Obama presented his debt-reduction plan in a speech at George Washington University on Wednesday, he first offered a scathing critique of the Republican proposal, introduced last week by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. Ryan’s plan aims to trim $4 trillion from the deficit over 10 years, mostly by cutting programs that serve the poor,…
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Obama's Big Deficit Speech: 'I Still Believe'
This afternoon, President Obama delivered a speech titled “The Country We Believe In,” outlining a four-part plan to reduce the federal deficit. Read the remarks as prepared for delivery here: Remarks of President Barack Obama — As Prepared for DeliveryThe Country We Believe InThe George Washington UniversityWashington, D.C.April 13, 2011 Good afternoon. It’s great to…
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ASNE to Help Editors Reach Out to 'New America'
Now that it has revealed that the number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors plans to enlist non-media companies to brief news executives on appealing to an increasingly brown America. “ASNE will be a leader at keeping diversity at…
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Your Take: How the Racial Wealth Gap Hurts Children of Color
A white acquaintance who grew up wealthy in the South in the 1940s had the family gardener’s son, an African-American boy, as his earliest best friend. He remembers vividly what happened when he asked his mother if his friend could join them for lunch. She put the black child at a table in the kitchen…
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The Shaky Future of Health Care for All
It’s well documented that African Americans and other ethnic minorities have disproportionately higher rates of poor health, including infant mortality and most chronic conditions — heart disease, stroke, cancer, HIV/AIDS, asthma and diabetes, among others. Racial differences in health have persisted for so long that they’re largely seen as a standard fact of life, even…
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Black Studies Scholar Manning Marable Dead at 60
The widow of Manning Marable has told The Root that the 60-year-old scholar of black studies died this afternoon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital of complications relating to pneumonia. According to Leith Mullings Marable, her husband had suffered from sarcoidosis for the past 25 years and had undergone a double-lung transplant in July 2010. Marable, a…