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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…
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Pundits: Romney Sort of Endorsed Obama
President Obama was judged the winner of Monday night’s final debate of the campaign season, with challenger Mitt Romney leaving pundits debating why he now agreed with the president on so many foreign policy issues. “If this debate had gone on for 30 more minutes, Romney was going to endorse Obama,” Van Jones, the former…
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Black TV Watch: Prison Survival
(The Root) — This weekend’s shows taught many life lessons. Not only did we learn about jazz and Christmastime government corruption in New Orleans, but we were privy to impromptu, hood-rigged medicine in a zombie-filled prison. Vital skills, vital skills. The Walking Dead (Sunday, 9 p.m. ET; AMC) “There’s no government, no hospital, no police. It’s…
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Celebrating Diversity in Corporate America
(The Root) — As one of his first orders of business since being named the president and CEO of the Executive Leadership Council, Ronald C. Parker addressed a crowd of about 2,000 at his organization’s annual Recognition Gala Thursday night. At the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center outside of Washington, D.C., Parker, formerly a senior vice…
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What Makes Street Harassers Think Touching Is OK?
Clutch magazine‘s Danielle C. Belton says that men in New York have been testing her “friendliness” with physical contact that really crosses a line. … But when I really thought about it, how often had this happened where a guy grabbing me and pulling me in a direction I had no interest in going got…
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Couple Sues Doctors for Botched Baby Birth
In what can only be described as a parent’s worst nightmare, a Missouri couple are suing a team of doctors for separating their newborn son’s head from his neck during delivery — then trying to cover it up. Arteisha Betts and Travis Ammonette were advised that she should deliver via cesarian section by their OB-GYN,…
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Poor Minority Schools Lack Student Media
Overall, 33% Have Online Component, Study Finds High schools that don’t have their own student media “are largely poor and have high minority populations, often depriving the students of a vital educational opportunity,” the University of Kansas reported Wednesday. Moreover, “While the Internet has steadily become a larger part of media over the past decade-plus,…
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Polls: Debate Produced Surge for Romney
“In the five days since Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was declared by many the winner of the first presidential debate, political watchers have waited to see if polls would shift in response to his performance. And, they did,” NPR reported on Monday. “Not only has the Gallup tracking poll tightened to a tie —…