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President Obama Deserves a Vote on His Supreme Court Nominee
We’ve been with President Barack Obama since the beginning. As three of his senior advisers, we worked closely with the president on a host of important issues—few more important than assisting him with the judicial nominations and confirmations of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan. Nominations are not taken lightly, and they can’t be,…
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Baquet: ‘Flawed’ Story on Gay Talese Points to Diversity Issues at New York Times
The story of writer Gay Talese and his offensive remarks to New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones became a story about the Times itself Thursday when Executive Editor Dean Baquet rebuked the Times’ report on the incident and tied it to the news organization’s difficulties with newsroom diversity and inclusion. Talese, who at 84 has…
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So Here's How I Accidentally Bought A Murse.
There was a time in my life—college—when I used to love shopping. Now, this was mostly because I enjoyed the malls in Atlanta, with Cumberland and Lenox Square being my favorites. I went to Cumberland because it was on my side of Interstate 285 (the west side) and sold more than shoes, baby clothes and gangsta grills (like Greenbriar),…
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Felony Child-Abuse Charge Dropped Against Baltimore School Cop Who Slapped Student
Anthony C. Spense, a Baltimore school police officer, has escaped a felony child-abuse charge after being caught on video slapping and kicking a student outside a city high school last month, the Baltimore Sun reports. Prosecutors dropped the felony charge Thursday, Spense’s defense attorney, Warren Brown, announced. Now only two misdemeanor charges—second-degree assault and misconduct—remain. In…
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Dear People: Wash Your Body Daily; Don’t Listen to These Doctors Telling You Otherwise
Here’s a little fact about humans: We have a propensity to stink. Now, there are levels to the funk. Some people may take longer to build up a pungent smell. Others, hell, if they step out into the heat longer than 20 minutes, the odor will start to rise from the depths of their nether…
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How I Ended Up Buying a Murse—That’s Right, a Man Purse
There was a time in my life—college—when I used to love shopping. Now, this was mostly because I enjoyed the malls in Atlanta, with Cumberland and Lenox Square being my favorites. I went to Cumberland because it was on my side of Interstate 285 (the west side) and sold more than shoes, baby clothes and gangsta…
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Black Boston Firefighter Sues Red Sox for Discrimination
An African-American Boston firefighter is suing the Red Sox after he says he was denied entry to Fenway Park to make a safety inspection in 2013, reports the Boston Globe. Robert C. Cox, 50, filed the civil complaint this week and seeks unspecified damages. According to the complaint, Cox, who is black, and two other…
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Voter Suppression: The Elephant (and Donkey) in the Room
“It’s bad enough that an outrage was perpetrated last week against the voters of Maricopa County, Ariz.,” columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. wrote Sunday in the Washington Post. “It would be far worse if we ignore the warning that the disenfranchisement of thousands of its citizens offers our nation. In November, one of the most contentious…
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‘Everything Was Wrong’ in Coverage of Native Child Custody Case
Can you guess where the headline writers’ sympathies lie? “Girl yanked from foster home for being 1/64th Indian” (USA Today from Newser) “Girl, 6, removed from foster family of four years under law about her 1.5% Choctaw heritage (VIDEO)” (Daily News, New York) ” ‘Devastated’ Foster Parents of Part Native American Girl Taken From Home…
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‘Calm’ May Not Fit Country’s Mood, but It’s Obama’s Only Choice
Sometimes, even when I suspect that he knows it will hurt him, President Barack Obama does not follow the script. The evening of the day when terrorists struck in Belgium, the president and his family attended a Major League Baseball exhibition game in Cuba. Why didn’t he rush back to Washington, D.C., or to Belgium…