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On Hampton's Hair Rules
(The Root) — When I hit the campus of Hampton University as a senior in the fall of 2007, I had one thing on my mind: Free the Jena Six. The Iraq War made me pay attention, Hurricane Katrina angered me, the murder of Sean Bell left me disillusioned, but when I heard the story…
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Racist Code Words or Truth Telling?
How serious was Joe Biden’s mistake in saying to a black audience in Danville, Va., last week that Republicans are “going to put y’all back in chains?” How about Touré, the writer turned MSNBC commentator, who apologized for his language after saying last week that Mitt Romney’s campaign was sending coded racial messages? “I know…
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Actor Kal Penn on Obama, Asian Voters
(The Root) — Actor-activist Kal Penn fits the dual description better than most. The 35-year-old star of films, including the Harold & Kumar comedies and the acclaimed drama The Namesake, left a recurring role on TV’s House for the White House Office of Public Engagement, where he worked on the Obama administration’s youth outreach. Penn,…
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Study Reveals Small Fraud Rate in Elections
“Despite the push for strict voter ID laws in a charged partisan and racial debate, the most exhaustive study ever of American election fraud reveals the rate is infinitesimal,” according to News21, a national investigative reporting project at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. “Since 2000, a time…
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5 Drugs That Have Hip-Hop Breaking Bad
(The Root) — Hip-hop has had a steady love affair with drugs. Way before studio kingpins like Rick Ross told tall tales of drug dealing, rappers routinely rhymed about their recreational use of marijuana. In fact, contemporary artists such as Wiz Khalifa and the reconstituted Snoop Lion have built careers out of professing their love…
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Zakaria Suspended From Time, CNN Over Plagiarism
“I Made a Terrible Mistake,” Commentator Says “Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria was suspended from both places for a month on Friday after admitting to lifting parts of a story from the New Yorker,” Jack Mirkinson and Rebecca Shapiro reported for the Huffington Post. “The Washington Post, which publishes a separate column by…
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Diversity Aids Coverage of Sikh Killings
A diverse newsroom leadership team helped deepen the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s coverage of Sunday’s killings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Martin Kaiser, senior vice president and editor, told Journal-isms on Monday. Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran with white supremacist ties, opened fire before worship services in nearby Oak Creek, Wis., and killed…
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So Serena's Crip Walk Is Controversial Now?
Madame Noire‘s Brande Victorian strikes back at a black writer who compared the tennis champ’s victory dance to making an “X-rated joke inside a church.” I love how black people are wrong for expressing any kind of emotion at all, ever. You’d think Americans would be thrilled that another American — albeit an African American…
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Mayor: New ID Law Not America We Fought For
(The Root) — Though he was making an early campaign swing through Charlotte, N.C., a city he’ll revisit for the Democratic convention in September, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s mind was also on the battle over a voter-ID law going on in his Pennsylvania home. “We are very concerned about disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters,”…
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Spencer's Beauty-Shop Pitch for Obama
(The Root) — It’s not every day that an Oscar-winning actress stops by the neighborhood beauty salon and barbershop to compliment your roller set. But on Saturday’s national day of grassroots action for the Obama campaign, Octavia Spencer of The Help brought Hollywood celebrity to North Carolina to boost the president’s re-election chances, vote by…