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Black Political Writer Declares for Romney
Most Journalistic Reaction: “Disapproving” Robert Vickers, a black journalist and the political writer at the Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., gave some readers at least two reasons to disagree with him Friday. He told them his choice for president, and said that person is Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate. “Given that my role here is to…
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Kamala Harris: Focused on Job, Not SCOTUS
(The Root) — Why is California’s attorney general stumping for President Obama in the battleground state of North Carolina in the last days of a contentious presidential campaign? “One, because I’m one of the national co-chairs for the campaign,” she told The Root, “and two, because the outcome of the election in North Carolina will…
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What About the Unmarried Black Man?
Clutch magazine‘s Danielle C. Belton begins to explore the other side of the ubiquitous statistics about black marriage. A lot of fuss is made about black women and why we collectively (per society and possibly the Washington Post) can’t find a man. It’s a heavily skewed statistic/topic/news story that usually enrages (or terrifies) more than…
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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…