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A Tale of Two Post-Racial Mayors
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker and Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian M. Fenty are sometimes mistaken for each other: Both of them have similarly shaven bald heads and are grouped among the new breed of black political leadership. Unlike their predecessors, who rode a wave out of the civil rights movement and into mayoralties of major…
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Johnson Publishing Co. Expects New Strategy in January
UPDATE: Saturday, Sept. 11 An impassioned President Obama declared Friday that treating Muslims with respect was in the national interest as he responded to one of four questions asked by black journalists in a nearly 1 hour and 20-minute news conference. “All men and women are created equal,” Obama said to a question from Wendell…
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The Top Black Labor Union Leaders
A. Philip Randolph Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters In 1925 A. Philip Randolph became the leader of the black service staff of the Pullman railroad cars. It was the first African-American labor union. In 1941 Randolph threatened to bring 100,000 black job seekers to Washington, D.C. In response, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order…
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We Don't Need Another Civil Rights Movement
Recently the Schott Foundation released a bleak report on the state of black male education. Only eight states graduate more than 70 percent of black non-Hispanic males from their high schools. Four states have a graduation rate between 60 percent and 69 percent. Twenty states (plus Washington D.C.) have graduation rates below 50 percent. Nationwide,…
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Are Cows Turning Us Into . . . Well, Cows?
Surely you’ve noticed, especially in the last few weeks, when the national obsession encompassed all things back-to-school. If you’ve passed a school bus stop, attended an open house or helped a loved one unpack at college, there’s no way you missed the disproportionate amount of overweight and obese African-American children, teens and young adults. Our…
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Republicans Attack President Obama Over Mosque Comments
Republicans are having a field day over President Obama’s comments about freedom of religion in reference to the mosque to be built on private land, two blocks away from the Sept. 11 site. Apparently, the president’s support of a plan to build a Muslim cultural center near ground zero is an indicator that he is…
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What's With Obama's High Approval Ratings Among Blacks?
Beginning last week, President Obama’s approval rating is now the lowest it’s ever been, with just 45 percent of Americans saying they’re satisfied with the job he’s doing, according to Gallup. With the economy still flagging, the WikiLeaks fiasco looming over Afghanistan and an embarrassing run-in with new populist hero Shirley Sherrod, the president, who…
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The Struggle for Black Studies at HBCUs
Despite university budget cuts and a rise in anti-ethnic-studies sentiment, black-studies programs have held their ground in higher-education curricula. But while there has been substantial overall growth in the field during the last 40 years, it has happened primarily outside the community of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). “There’s activity going on [at HBCUs];…
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An Antidote to the 'Acting White' Phenomenon: Segregated Schools?
The response to my Bloggingheads conversation with Stanford Law’s Richard Thompson Ford on the ”acting white” issue is making me feel old. My entree into the race debate was in my 2000 book, Losing the Race, where I argued that a crucial reason for the gap in scholarly performance between even middle-class black students and…
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The Real Deal When You're Living With AIDS
I was 23 years old when I was diagnosed with HIV in 1986. It was a cruel and ugly time to be told that you were HIV-positive. Three months earlier, I’d given blood for the Red Cross, and now, in a five-minute meeting, they were delivering the bad news. The Red Cross employee didn’t know…