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The Midterms: For Older White Voters, the End of the Progressive Obama Era?
GOP Base Still a Shrinking Portion of Electorate “Democrats got hammered in Tuesday’s election. The conventional wisdom is that this was a referendum on President Obama and a repudiation of his policies,” William H. Frye, a demographer and senior fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, wrote Wednesday for salon.com. “Yet, to…
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Nearly Half of Those Who Will Not Vote Are Black and Hispanic
“Vast Gulf” in Finances Between Voters, Nonvoters “With just four days before the midterm elections, the spotlight understandably is focused on the estimated 40% of voting age adults who are expected to show up at the polls next Tuesday,” the Pew Research Center reported on Friday. “There has been less attention on the much larger…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Ep. 8 Recap: The Return of #bae Moniece
In case the title didn’t inform you, I’m here for Moniece. Granted, its 99 percent all fun and games. If I ran into her in real life, I PRAY that I’d have the sense to turn around and run like Usain Bolt. But, I know me. Which means, I’d probably end up on a date…
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5 Reasons This Year’s Midterm Elections Should Matter to Black Voters
Too many of us think that since the president isn’t on the ballot in 2014, Tuesday’s midterm election doesn’t matter. But it’s time to get rid of this misconception for the last time. Pollsters and prognosticators are speculating that African Americans won’t turn out, but this election has more at stake than the election of…
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Dominicans Embrace US Journalists After Thieves Heist Equipment
Dominicans Embrace Americans After Equipment Stolen “There are few circumstances in which good journalists want to become a story rather than cover one, but through no fault of their own two Post-Dispatch staffers became the center of attention while reporting on developments this week in a foreign country,” Dan Caesar reported Friday for the St.…
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Black Women Are Riding a Wave From Voter Participation to Political Office
Black women went to the polls in record numbers in 2012, registering and voting at a higher rate than any other group of voters. In 2014 they’ve set another record: More black women are making bids for national and statewide elected office this year than ever before. According to a recent analysis, 30 black women…
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Ex-FAMU Marching-Band Member Found Guilty in Hazing Case
The so-called leader of a group of Florida A&M University marching-band students who fatally beat drum major Robert Champion Jr. was convicted Friday of multiple charges related to the death, according to CNN. Dante Martin, 27, was found guilty of manslaughter and felony hazing by a jury after just an hour of deliberations, the report…
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Eric Holder Reveals His Biggest Mistake as Attorney General: Subpoenaing Journalists
Attorney General Repeats, “No Reporter’s Going to Jail” Before Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart ended his interview with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. at the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday, he asked one final question: “What’s the one decision you made that you wish you could do over again?,” Matt Wilstein reported for Mediaite. “Without much…
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Sister2Sister Magazine Files for Bankruptcy
Publisher Says She’ll Focus on Online Edition Sister2Sister, a women’s magazine that focuses on black Hollywood, has filed for bankruptcy protection and put the print edition on hiatus so it can focus on its website, publisher Jamie Foster Brown told Journal-isms. Brown, a onetime secretary to Black Entertainment Television co-founder Robert Johnson whose website describes…
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The Dear White People Roundtable
After what seems like a year’s worth of trailers, teasers, and dozens of free screenings for Bougie Blacks and guilt-ridden Whites, Dear White People was finally released. Some are calling it genius and whichever other superlative they can think of. Others have been somewhat underwhelmed. Last week, we started an email thread for the VSB…