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White, Wealthy South Baton Rouge Wants to Secede From Poor, Black Northern Areas
Some residents of south Baton Rouge, La.—a predominantly affluent and white area of the city—want to secede from the city and create a new one named “St. George,” the Raw Story reports. A study by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber has already concluded that incorporating a new city would most likely end in Baton Rouge…
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The Pitfalls of Parenting
Hitting your child is bad. (But don’t yell at me for writing it. Yell at science. Multiple studies say so.) Most school districts have moved away from corporal punishment entirely, and even though you will find some very staunch pro-“whoopings” enthusiasts, they remain greatly outnumbered by the multitudes who think that any hitting of a…
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Black Films Score Big Box Office in 2013
Director: Lee Daniels Starring: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Lenny Kravitz, Jane Fonda, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber, Robin Williams, Minka Kelly, Mariah Carey, Alex Pettyfer U.S. release date: Aug. 16, 2013 Domestic box office total: $115,577,562 Director: Malcolm D. Lee Starring: Morris Chestnut,…
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32 Mugshots of Black Men on Cover of Tenn. Newspaper Cause Uproar
Tenn. Paper Catches Heat for Front Page Array of Mug Shots ”On Nov. 5, the Times Free Press published a front-page story about the arrests of 32 men charged with gun and drug crimes after a four-year local and federal investigation. Chattanooga Police Chief Bobby Dodd called the suspects the ‘worst of the worst’ in…
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A Child, a Singer, a Comic Top Philanthropy List
Teresa Wiltz is senior staff writer at Stateline, the journalism outlet of the Pew Charitable Trusts. ’Tis the season for giving—and some folks give a lot more than others. Some are celebrities wielding big checkbooks, while others are working behind the scenes, donating their time and talent. But whoever they are, they’re all about uplifting…
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Love Terrence Howard, but Don't Like Terrence Howard
The Best Man Holiday may be surpring industry insiders with another strong performance at the box office this weekend, but it isn’t a surprise to long-time fans of the original Best Man and its dynamic cast. Among that cast, though, is a man who nearly kept me from seeing the movie, a man of whom…
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White Writers Join N-Word Debate
Wise”>” ‘You Don’t Get It; You’re White’ . . . Doesn’t Work for Me” White writers are coming forward to say they cannot sit on the sidelines in the debate over who can use the “N-Word,” if anyone. The latest is Mike Wise, Washington Post sports columnist, who responded in Friday’s printed Post, “I deserve…
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What’s in a (Black) Name? An Interview With Searching for Shaniqua Director Phill Branch
The blogosphere has been on fire over a story about Kylie Austin, a biracial teen who changed her name from Keisha to Kylie because she was frustrated with being taunted about her “black” name by her mostly white peers. And there’s a new film on the way that takes this issue head-on. There have been…
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Why Blacks Loved John F. Kennedy
<a href=”http://mije.org/node/8141/#JFK”>Journalists Shared in Determined Hope of the Era Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, it’s easy for some to dismiss his brief presidency, as conservative commentator Brit Hume did on “Fox News Sunday.” Hume, a senior political analyst for FOX News Channel, said of Kennedy on Sunday, “despite the thinness of the record…
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How Black Was JFK's Camelot?
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. 55:…