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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…
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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…