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Parents Claim No Choice, No Voice, in Children’s Education
The key to success in any industry is innovation. That is at the heart of the reform movement that has overtaken public education over the last few years and shuttered public schools that were labeled failing or underresourced. Many of the reformers likely had the children’s best interests in mind, like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg,…
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What’s the Best Way to Research Bajan Roots?
I am doing my husband’s genealogy. His grandmother was born Ethel (Etherea) Chantilla Pounder on March 23, 1898, in St. Philip Parish, Barbados, West Indies. Her father was Arthur Pounder and her mother was Avis Jordan. How can I find records on Arthur and Avis? —Patricia L. Blackwell There are plenty of resources available to you!…
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Former CNN Employee Says He Was Fired Because of His Race
CNN’s Racial “Atmosphere” Worries NABJ Fired Black Producer Files $5 Million Lawsuit A longtime CNN employee’s $5 million wrongful-termination and discrimination lawsuit, filed Monday, is the latest reason that the National Association of Black Journalists “is concerned about the atmosphere for African Americans at CNN,” the association said in a statement Wednesday. Erik Pedersen reported…
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Ala. Pastor Tells Congregation That He Has AIDS and Slept With Church Members
A few Sundays ago, a now-former Montgomery, Ala., pastor, Juan Demetrius McFarland, who had led his church for 23 years, walked up to the pulpit and told his congregation that he has full-blown AIDS and that he had slept with church members who never knew his health status. “He confessed to the entire membership and…
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Supreme Court Could Decide Voter-Restriction Battle in NC
Last week, voting-rights advocates hailed a legal victory—at least briefly—when a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit cleared the way for North Carolina voters to utilize same-day voter registration and out-of-precinct provisional balloting, both of which were eliminated in a revision of the state’s election law that was passed…
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Tech- and Gadget-Savvy Journo Group Sees Increased Diversity at Convention
Online News Assn. Conference Makes Strides in Diversity When the Online News Association ended its three-day convention in Chicago on Saturday, 35 percent of the presenters had been people of color, and half were women, according to its organizers. That’s the most diversity the ONA — founded in 1999 and the newest kid on the…
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Who Were the 1st Black Federal Court Judges?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 93: How did black justices break…
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More Famous People Are Naked On The Internet. What Does It All Mean?
Unless you sleep with the fishes, there’s a better than 100 percent chance that you heard about the return of The Fappening. Over the course of the weekend, the likes of Meagan Good, Gabrielle Union, Vanessa Hudgens, Hope Solo’s aggression, Selena Gomez, Kim K, and even motherfucking Omarion caught the tail end of a leaky…
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NY Times TV Critic Defends ‘Angry Black Woman’ Story
Questionable Framing of Story on “Scandal” Creator It was just three weeks ago that the New York Times was vilified over a story calling the slain 18-year-old Michael Brown “no angel,” a mistake partly attributed to insensitive editing. On Friday, critics paid and unpaid leaped on a Times story in which the error was not just…
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How HBCUs Respond to a Call for Inclusion of LGBT Students
For many who choose to attend an HBCU, the decision is about far more than just academics. Since the first HBCUs opened their doors in the years before the Civil War, they have offered black students an opportunity to pursue advanced studies in a space they can be certain will be supportive, welcoming and inclusive.…