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Sherri Shepherd's Mistake: Feeding the Internet Trolls
When The View co-host was threatened with violence on Twitter, she decided to fight back publicly. But Clutch magazine‘s Danielle C. Belton says that was her biggest mistake. Oh, Internet! The land where the weak become strong and the strong become morons. Where even the most intelligent person can be lowered by the discourse that…
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What’s worse than having parents of two different races? A whole lot of things, but you couldn’t tell that to Virginia’s attorney general, who argued (and lost) the point in Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court case that invalidated state laws against miscegenation, saying, “[C]hildren of intermarried parents are referred to not merely as…
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Black Network Plans 5 Hours of News
Soul of the South Releases Promotional Video A new African American-oriented television network has posted a video preview of its plans for an unprecedented five hours of daily news programming, which the network’s primary creator, Edwin Avent, said he hopes to have on the air on Labor Day weekend. Avent, former publisher of Heart &…
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Bad Body Image Keeps Us From Enjoying Life
Danielle C. Belton argues in a piece for Clutch magazine that you can have a good life at any size. Ah, the “bikini body.” That ethereal thing where everyone, suddenly, is supposed to look like a swimsuit model or a Hollywood starlet or a freshly sunned Kardashian — instead of their bony, lumpy, awkward selves.…
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Obama Bashed in Weekend News Media?
Obama Bashed in Weekend News Media President Obama was roundly bashed in the national news media over the weekend — at least by those originating in New York and Washington. In the New York Times, the Sunday Review section began a Maureen Dowd column on its section front. “The president who started off with such dazzle now seems…
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Paths to Legal Marriage: Interracial vs. Same-Sex
On May 31, 2012, in a decision that’s sure to be appealed to the Supreme Court, a federal court struck down as unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage Act, ruling that it unfairly denies equal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. It’s not the landmark case that 1967 Loving v. Virginia was for interracial marriage —…
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Alfre Woodard on Activism and Actors
(The Root) — When actress Alfre Woodard recently traveled to Charlotte, N.C., to announce a cybersummit at Johnson C. Smith University that will coincide with the Democratic National Convention in September, it was just another step in a lifetime of political activism. “I started walking the precincts with my parents when I was 10 years…
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Serena Williams Is Gone in a Flash
(The Root) — Of all the possible scenarios for Serena Williams in her return to the French Open after a two-year absence, no one saw this one coming. Certainly winning wasn’t guaranteed, considering her career-long struggle to prevail on clay courts. She’s not getting any younger, either, approaching her 31st birthday in September. And health…
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Story Gives New Life to Obama Photo
Story Gives New Life to Symbolic White House Photo A 2009 photograph of President Obama bending over so a 5-year-old African American boy can touch his hair is enjoying renewed popularity after reporter Jackie Calmes recounted the story behind the image last week in the New York Times. On the day it ran, Dylan Stableford…
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Alfre Woodard Q&A
Mary C. Curtis is a Roll Call columnist and contributor to NPR and NBCBLK. She has worked at the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Charlotte Observer and Politics Daily and as a contributor to the Washington Post. She is a senior facilitator for the OpEd Project at Cornell and Yale universities. Follow her…