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Racism Still Pushing Some Over the Edge?
Do Racial Issues Still Push Some Over the Edge? Black Woman’s Chase, Slaying Renews Interest in Theory The suspect slain after a chase from the White House to the U.S. Capitol Thursday wasn’t identified by race, unlike the Washington Navy Yard killer who left 12 others dead less than three weeks earlier. Miriam Carey wasn’t…
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Drake Is Corny and Courageous
(The Root) — Drake’s new album, Nothing Was the Same, sold more than 658,000 units in its first week, with the single “Hold On, We’re Going Home” demoting Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” from the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The Toronto-born-and-bred MC’s personal best week ever puts him in second place…
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The Affordable Care Act vs. Obamacare
The Associated Press and NPR have decided to cut back on use of the term “Obamacare,” with NPR describing the word as seeming “to be straddling somewhere between being a politically-charged term and an accepted part of the vernacular.” Stuart Seidel, NPR’s managing editor for standards and practice, issued his style ruling Tuesday after this…
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Katie Couric Tackles Racial Profiling
(The Root) — Katie Couric has spent most of her career being known for her perky disposition and ability to transition seamlessly from interviewing a celebrity about a new movie to discussing a politician’s latest campaign. She is not exactly known for being a thought leader in the never-ending national conversation on race. But on…
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What's the New Health Care Policy Called Again?
Reactions Differ on “Obamacare,” “Affordable Care Act” “What’s in a name? When it comes to the debate over health care, apparently a lot,” Steve Liesman reported Thursday for CNBC. “In CNBC’s third-quarter All-America Economic Survey, we asked half of the 812 poll respondents if they support Obamacare and the other half if they support the…
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The Unjustified Fear of Black Men
Following the North Carolina police shooting of an unarmed black man who was actually seeking the officer’s help, Mary C. Curtis dismantles stereotypes and false perceptions in an incisive piece at the Washington Post. “Falling back on fear of a black man is a shortcut,” she writes, “unless you’re looking for something simple — like…
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CNN's Diversity Council Changing Leadership
The leadership of CNN’s Diversity Council is changing, with Johnita P. Due, its longtime chair, stepping down and Maria Ebrahimji, its vice chair, leaving the network, a CNN spokeswoman said on Thursday. The change at the council, coupled with criticism of CNN’s diversity record since Jeff Zucker became CNN president last year, led to a…
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Can Rahm Emanuel Win Black Voters Back?
(The Root) — Why does Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appear to be furiously campaigning for re-election in the African-American community when the election isn’t until 2015? On Tuesday he was spotted cruising the aisles of a Wal-Mart on Chicago’s South Side, which is predominantly African American. Over the weekend, he and police Superintendent Garry F.…
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Dead Kenyans Shown on Paper's Website
Race Factor Raised in Graphic Images From Kenya On Saturday, the New York Times published remarkable close-up photographs by a staff photographer who happened to be near the bloody shopping center assault in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed at least 62 people. But another Africa-based photographer asked in an open letter the next day, “Would the…
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Drawing Attention to New York's Diversity
New Yorker Cover Depicts “What We Live Every Day” With so much distressing news about news-media backsliding on diversity, it was refreshing to come across the cover of the Sept. 23 edition of the New Yorker showing a white boy and a black girl holding hands as they navigate New York. It was even more…