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Am I Related to a Confederate General?
(The Root) — “My cousin on my mom’s side of the family has done extensive research on our family background. From what she has obtained thus far, it appears as if my mom’s family are descendants of Gen. Braxton Bragg (Fort Bragg is named after him). There have been a few challenges trying to see…
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Navy Yard Shooter's Race Broadcast Often
“The script followed by the media during the coverage of the shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington is an all-too-familiar one,” Jack Mirkinson wrote Monday for the Huffington Post. “The story has unfolded in confusing, conflicting pieces, in real time, in front of viewers and on Twitter. And, just as in Newtown, and in Boston, key…
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Acclaimed Black Author Jesmyn Ward on New Memoir
For her third book, Jesmyn Ward, 36, probably could have written about anything she wanted. With two novels under her belt, including the 2011 National Book Award winner Salvage the Bones, it is safe to say that Ward is one of the brightest stars in the literary world, a black woman from the South with…
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Too Few Black Board Members at Big Firms
News Corp, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Discovery on the List “In our research to create the [Black Enterprise] Registry of Corporate Directors, our listing of black board members from the 250 largest companies on the S&P 500, we discovered that 75 companies — 30% — currently do not have any blacks on their boards including quite…
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Obama Skips Black Media Outlets on Syria
President Obama is preparing to address the nation on Syria Tuesday night after granting seven-minute interviews Monday to six network news programs — but not Univision, Al Jazeera or black-oriented television networks — in which he left open the possibility of a diplomatic solution to the crisis over reports of Syria’s use of chemical weapons.…
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Ben Jealous Talks to Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(The Root) — NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous — the young leader who has served as the face of the nation’s largest civil rights organization for the past five years — has shocked many with the announcement that he’ll step down from his post Dec. 31. In an in-depth conversation with The Root’s…
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Radio Ads Try Shaming Washington Redskins
Oneida Nation Buys Time in Cities Where Team Will Play Opponents of the Washington Redskins team name are opening a new front in their battle. The Oneida Indian Nation plans to run radio ads in the Washington market Sunday and Monday, and in the markets of the opposing team when the NFL franchise plays its…
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Blacks Aren't Backing Obama on Syria
African Americans, President Obama’s most loyal voting bloc, nevertheless are breaking with the president over his request for military action against Syria, according to two new surveys. Hispanics likewise join the majority in their opposition to a military response to reports that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. “A sharply divided Senate committee voted Wednesday…
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'The Butler' Tops Box Office for 3rd Weekend
“Lee Daniels’ The Butler engineered a surprise victory over Morgan Spurlock’s 3D concert documentary One Direction: This Is Us at the Labor Day box office, becoming the first movie of 2013 to top the North American chart three weekends in a row,” Pamela McClintock reported Monday for the Hollywood Reporter. The book version, “The Butler:…
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Black Adults Need to Stop Spewing Anti-Black Rhetoric at Children
Sheryl Underwood’s disparaging comments about kinky hair jogged Danielle C. Belton’s memory about the negative things she’s heard black adults say to black children about their features. In a piece at Clutch magazine, Belton stresses the importance of grown folk not giving black children inferiority complexes about their brown complexions or hair texture. The people who told me…