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Obama's Achilles' Heel: A Writer's Soul?
“He Can Be in a Room but Detach Himself” A writer granted rare access to President Obama for six months said Wednesday that the politically costly charge that the president is aloof grows out of a personality trait he shares with journalists: “It’s the personality trait of a writer.” Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of…
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Florida Makes Concessions in Voter-Purge Suit
In a case filed by civil rights organizations surrounding Florida’s efforts to purge its voter rolls of suspected noncitizens, the state agreed on Wednesday to several concessions in a settlement that Advancement Project Co-Director Judith Brown Dianis says “represents a historic milestone for voting rights in Florida,” and “will ensure that naturalized citizens, the majority…
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Iyanla Vanzant on Shedding Self-Hate
(The Root) — In a promo for her new show, Iyanla: Fix My Life, best-selling author and inspirational speaker Iyanla Vanzant tells Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada, “You’ve been rewarded for being a thug among women.” As the screen fades to black, Vanzant continues, “It’s going to cost you.” That snippet is part of the…
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DNC Helped Recapture Charlotte's Magic
(The Root) — Mayor Anthony Foxx is exhausted, but in a good way, just like his city. Though last week’s Democratic National Convention didn’t run exactly as planned — turns out neither party is great at forecasting the weather — the sudden storms that periodically pummeled Charlotte, N.C., didn’t dampen the spirit of the celebration…
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The Campaign: Only for the Middle Class?
Poverty Issue “Nearly Invisible” in Election Coverage “ ‘Middle Class First,’ said the placards on display as Bill Clinton addressed the Democratic convention. And indeed, speaker after speaker has invoked the party’s devotion to the lot of middle-class Americans in 2012,” David Crary reported Friday for the Associated Press. “The rich also have featured in…
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What Did the DNC and RNC Have in Common?
(The Root) — Witnesses to this week’s DNC or last week’s RNC conventions could easily come to the same conclusion: African-American issues were about as invisible as the imaginary President Obama in Clint Eastwood’s staged chair. During the Republican National Convention’s truncated three-day conference, there was Obama-bashing galore, with frequent mentions that the unemployment rate…
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Was Deval Patrick Right About Romney?
“Not Quite” the Image Presidential Campaign Paints “. . . Governor Deval Patrick, speaking Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, assailed his predecessor’s economic record, pointing to anemic job growth and deep budget cuts that affected education, transportation, and other programs that support the state’s economy,” Megan Woolhouse and Michael Rezendes reported Wednesday for…
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Michelle Obama, the Morning After
(The Root) — If you thought that Michelle Obama was greeted like a star during her convention speech Tuesday night in Charlotte, N.C., you should have been at the meeting of the African American Caucus at the Democratic National Convention the morning after. “I love you so much,” she said to cheers from hundreds of…
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FAMU Suspends Dance Team for Reported Hazing
CNN reports that, less than a year after drum major Robert Champion’s death after a postgame band hazing ritual, Florida A&M University’s Torque dance team was suspended yesterday after a report that it engaged in hazing. According to a university spokesperson, a parent informed the school that the incident, which allegedly involved drinking alcohol…
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Leave Fact-Checking to the Reporters
“A few years back, the Los Angeles Times considered joining a runaway industry trend,” Erik Wemple wrote Friday for the Washington Post. “Everywhere you clicked on the political web, it seemed, someone was putting the drywall and paint on a stand-alone, cleverly branded fact-checking machine or at least some sort of discrete truth-outing posts. “.…