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Say It Loud: Black Girls Rock!
Call it perfect timing. Black Girls Rock makes its television debut this weekend on BET as the public image of black women continues to be dragged through the mud. It is difficult to miss recent reports, blogs and viral videos exploring why many of us will never marry or even come close to finding a…
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How Obama's Educational Policies Benefit Blacks
This is Part 4 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. There is perhaps no issue more important to the black community’s success than education. Few things — health care included — can practically guarantee a life filled…
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Love in the Time of the Haitian Cholera
I’ve always admired the haunting beauty and sad grace of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera. But I never imagined that his title would conjure the force we’ll need to fight Haiti’s freshest suffering: an outbreak of cholera that threatens the loss of thousands of lives. It’s fitting that the novel…
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No More 'Fried, Dyed and Laid to the Side'
By Deborah Dickerson KJ, I loved your response to Dominique Browning’s rebellious decision to maintain her long, gray locks for as long as she damned well pleases. But I’m struck, as usual, by how different the world of beauty standards (and resistance to same) is for black women. (Sorry, Asians and Hispanics. I wouldn’t dare “go…
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The Million Man March 15 Years Later
By Jon Jeter First, the day: It was a brilliant autumn morning 15 years ago Oct. 16 when nearly a million black men assembled peacefully and purposefully on the National Mall in Washington D.C., to talk, show our mutual support and urge one another on. An almost cloudless sky, I remember, was bluer than reality;…
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Bloomberg: No Food Stamps for Soda
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has long made it one of his goals to clear his city of unhealthy foods — the banning of trans fats was a notable move — and this week he asked the federal government if he could forbid the city’s food-stamp recipients from using stamps to buy soda. Some…
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Household Income Dropped in 2009
Household incomes plunged in 2009. For the second year in a row, the number of poor people rose as households with incomes more than $100,000 declined. According to Carol Morello of The Washington Post, “Incomes are down about 4 percent since the recession began in December 2007.” The median household income in 2007 was $52,384,…
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What Ron Walters Would Ask of Journalists
Late Professor’s Colleagues Urge a Look at the Black Vote Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said she really got to know Ronald W. Walters when they worked on Jesse L. Jackson’s 1984 Democratic presidential campaign. “Jesse Jackson would have you join hands in prayer” when there was a problem, “but Ron Walters figured it out,” she…
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Sickle Cell Testing of Athletes Stirs Discrimination Fears
The Washington Post reports that colleges and universities are requiring top athletes to be tested for the sickle cell gene. The goal is to protect athletes from sudden death if they have undiagnosed sickle cell disease. Schools say that training schedules could be modified for the mostly African-American athletes who carry the trait. However, the screening has…
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President Obama Authors Children's Book
President Barack Obama can add children’s-book author to his growing list of credentials. Obama has penned Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, an illustrated children’s book that will be released Nov. 16. The publication completes a three-book, $1.9 million deal Obama signed with Random House while he was still an Illinois senator, including…