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Female Inmates Sterilized Without Consent in California
From 2006 to 2010, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 women without getting the proper state approval, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting. The procedure, known as a tubal ligation, was performed by doctors under contract with the CDCR. The doctors were given state funds to perform the procedure, which…
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Nigerian 'Oprah' Launches Network
“A woman who could be considered Africa’s Oprah Winfrey is launching an entertainment network that will be beamed into nearly every country on the continent with programs showcasing its burgeoning middle class,” Michelle Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday for the Associated Press. “Mosunmola ‘Mo’ Abudu wants EbonyLife TV to inspire Africans and the rest…
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Supreme Court's Voting-Rights Decision: Democracy Will Suffer
In a piece at NorthJersey.com, Mark C. Alexander, a professor at Seton Hall University School of Law, writes that by gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has spun a mythical America that is not representative of the world in which we live. He says “their foray into fantasy does damage that may not be…
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PBS to Air 'March on Washington' Doc
Few Blacks in White Media, but They Reported It Elsewhere On Monday, PBS announced that a documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington would air Aug. 27, on the eve of the historic date when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. While this documentary and other commemorations…
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Single Parents Aren't the Problem
(The Root) — Do black children have natural disadvantages in school because most are from single-parent homes? Recently, comedian Bill Cosby chided the “apathy” he observed among black parents. He, like many others, believes that the fading presence of the black nuclear family places black children at a social disadvantage and creates a burden on…
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Portraying Difference in 18th-Century Brazil
(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Depicted approximately life-size, a nearly naked young black man stands before a curving dirt…
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Gay Journos Visible 'All Over the Airwaves'
“The remarkable shift in how the United States views gay rights and gay people could be easily understood just by following the way the media covered the Supreme Court’s historic rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 on Wednesday,” Jack Mirkinson reported Thursday for Huffington Post. “Just as LGBT people have become ever more visible…
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'Yeezus' Is Good, Not Great, and Quite Misogynist
Sparse rock chords, medium-sized rhymes and women as objects is how Yeezus sounds to Kris Ex, who reviewed Kanye West’s latest album in L.A. Weekly. He also notes West’s misogynist lyrics, despite becoming father to a baby girl, North West, with girlfriend Kim Kardashian, last weekend. The album is short, clocking in at 40 minutes,…
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NYPD Finally Cops to Profiling?
(The Root) — Though the New York City Police Department has steadfastly denied that its controversial stop-and-frisk program constitutes racial profiling, today it appears that New York’s finest are singing a new tune. The NYPD Captains Endowment Association is running an ad against a new City Council measure that would expand the language defining those…
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Job-Hunting Journos Duped by Fake Paper
How desperate are some journalists to find newspaper work in this era of cutbacks and layoffs? Nine or 10 journalists are reported to have fallen for a scam in which a 25-year-old accused con artist created a fake online newspaper. They joined his “staff.” Joshua Brian Randolph was in the Hall County, Ga., Detention Center…