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Is Grad School a Good Place to Hide??
The conventional wisdom is that when the economy starts to falter, grad school is a great place to hide out until things blow over. True to form, grad school applications are up across the country. Over the past year I’ve heard friend after friend say that they’re frustrated with their respective job searches and are…
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The Root's Talented Ten: Alexander Lofton
Alex Lofton Age: 24 Hometown: Seattle, Wa. Campaign Positions: Border State Director, Regional Field Director, Field Director—Georgia Campaign Turf: South Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio New Washington Gig: Southeast Regional Director, Organizing for America Long after the confetti had been cleared from election-night parties, Alex Lofton was still at work. Or “redeployed,” as he likes…
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Papal Doublespeak Puts Millions of Black Lives At Risk
Pope Benedict XVI apparently sees grace in ignorance. Today, he used the opening moments of his first trip to Africa to reiterate the Church’s opposition to condom use. Feels crazy just to type that out. Even worse when it’s being trotted around a continent with more than 22 million people already HIV positive, not to…
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Monday's Headlines
WP: AIG Discloses Use of Bailout Funds; You Didn’t Get Any, But an Incompetent Did Times of London: Thousands of Girls Mutilated in Britain WSJ: Having Little Interest in Being Opposed, Chavez Sends Navy to Venezuela’s Seaport to Make This Clear AP: Imus Has Prostate Cancer; Rev. Al Sharpton to Protest This in Some Way…
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Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review
Monday Black Enterprise: Top Republicans Want to Let Some Banks Fail; So Does Buzz and Everyone Else The Daily Mail: Longevity Linked to Body’s Reaction Time; Why Blacks Don’t Live Forever Unknown The Huffington Post: PM of Zimbabwe Involved In Car Accident, Wife Killed The Chicago Tribune: Consumers Willing to Make Sojourn to Buy Black…
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Stimulating Women?
Flanked by a cadre of beaming, successful women, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls yesterday. But the president may have to reconcile that with the fact that the centerpiece of his administration so far—the passage of the economic stimulus package—may in fact end up hurting…
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White House Doctor Gives Obama's Stem Cell Policy Extra Credit
One more unexpected and fantastic advantage to having Barack Obama overturn the Bush administration’s ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research: The stem cell research that did go on under Bush was often sponsored by private sources and benefactors. In our current economic downturn, those sources have bit hammered by losses, and might…
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Monday's Headlines
Black Enterprise: Top Republicans Want to Let Some Banks Fail; So Does Buzz and Everyone Else The Daily Mail: Longevity Linked to Body’s Reaction Time; Why Blacks Don’t Live Forever Unknown The Huffington Post: PM of Zimbabwe Involved In Car Accident, Wife Killed The Chicago Tribune: Consumers Willing to Make Sojourn to Buy Black Black…
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Obama Pulls Our Head Out of Scientific Sand
It’s easy to forget—with the global economy ground to a halt and all—just how much the Bush crowd jammed up the gears of science, too. But President Obama reminded us of the fact yesterday when he lifted the Bush-era ban on funding for stem cell research. Obama used soaring language to mark the moment in…
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The Real Deal on The New Deal
Join the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on THE REAL DEAL ON THE NEW DEAL with The Root’s Michael Dawson. ***** It is often forgotten that, for all of its benefits, the New Deal reinforced structural black economic disadvantage in many ways. It is certainly true that the Work Projects Administration (WPA) put many blacks to work,…