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Black Publisher Endorses Romney
Rufus Friday Disagrees With Editorial Board The publisher and president of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader became one of few prominent African Americans to publicly support Mitt Romney for president Sunday when the paper’s editorial board disclosed that Rufus M. Friday disagreed with its endorsement of President Obama. “. . . He chose not to use…
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12 Top Black Philanthropists
The African-American tradition of philanthropy is long-standing, aided by the Christian custom of tithing — giving 10 percent of earnings to the church. Even outside the church, astonishing acts of charity have been made by people of humble means, such as washerwoman Osceola McCarty’s $150,000 gift to the University of Southern Mississippi upon her death…
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Tampa's 'Souls to the Polls' Success Story
Despite “hiccups” involving poll watchers questioning the food that volunteers offered to voters and asking that the flow of voters be stopped or slowed down, Colorlines‘ Brentin Mock reports that last weekend’s “Souls to the Polls” post-church Sunday voting campaign in Florida drew record numbers with a retooled and aggressive get-out-the-vote strategy. As the St.…
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Trapped in the Closet
(The Root) — It’s a story we’ve all heard before. Person with a membership to the privileged class goes incognito for a time as someone without an all-access pass to life. Lessons are learned. People are changed. But does social slumming change the rules or just mark them in bold? John Howard Griffin did it…
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Storm Raises Issue of Climate Change
Storm Raises Suppressed Issue of Climate Change “It was not a good year for people, weather and climate. The winter was strangely warm in many places and the summer ridiculously hot,” Adam Frank wrote Sunday for NPR. “As a large fraction of the country suffered through extreme or even extraordinary drought many folks naturally wondered,…
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Education Standards Divided by Race
Separate but equal may have referred to segregated schools but what about testing results? Burton Wire contributor Alton C. Strange writes that in the Southern states of Virginia and Florida, students are expected to perform according to their ethnicity, but why, he wonders, isn’t anyone up in arms? With the historic election of President Obama,…
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Why Are Blacks Silent on Obama Failures?
For all of President Obama’s victories, there also have been failures, like a high poverty rate and the prison population among African Americans. New York Times contributor Fredrick C. Harris wonders why more black intellectuals, who no doubt recognize these trends, aren’t more critical of the president, like Cornel West is, for example. Whether it…
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When the Misguided Sexist Is a Friend
When her friend said, “All black women are crazy,” XOJane columnist Danielle C. Belton had to take a moment. This man, she writes, is surrounded by women and knows that blanket statements like that are completely untrue, but thinks it’s comical to blurt out anyway. What’s a girlfriend to do? This is a man who…
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Covering a Racially Polarized Electorate
AP Poll: 51% Express Explicit Anti-Black Attitudes “The 2012 election is shaping up to be more polarized along racial lines than any presidential contest since 1988, with President Obama experiencing a steep drop in support among white voters from four years ago,” Jon Cohen and Rosalind S. Helderman reported Thursday for the Washington Post. “At…
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Faith, Crime and Africa: Not Debate-Worthy?
Debates Skipped Faith, Justice, Southern Hemisphere “Criminal justice reform may top the list of third-rail political issues to be strictly avoided on the campaign trail. And, perhaps as expected, it didn’t rear its head at any of the presidential debates,” Farai Chideya wrote Wednesday for Columbia Journalism Review. “Politicians from both major parties tend to…