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4 Questions With Common
Common gives a breakout performance in Luv, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, last week. The film is a coming-of-age story about a very impressionable 11-year-old boy. Common plays his uncle, who has just gotten out of prison and takes charge of the boy for the day. The entertainer had…
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Don Cornelius Dead at Age 75
Donald C. “Don” Cornelius — the deep-voiced, longtime host and producer of the original must-see-TV dance-and-music showcase Soul Train – was found dead in his California home earlier today at the age of 75. Law-enforcement sources are saying he died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Los Angeles Times. There was no…
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5 More Latino Journalists Flown to Israel
Jewish Group Sees Chance to Influence Hispanics Five Latino journalists returned last week from an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel in another bid by an American Jewish group to influence the United States’ growing Latino population. “We welcome to Israel a group of prestigious journalists, publishers and reporters from the U.S. Hispanic Community,” proclaimed the New…
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15 Black Military Heroes Through the Years
Crispus Attucks: The former slave was the first casualty of the American Revolutionary War when he was killed during the Boston Massacre. In 1888 the Crispus Attucks monument was unveiled in the Boston Common. Lemuel Haynes: He served as a minuteman during the American Revolutionary War, fighting at the April 1775 Battle of Lexington. He…
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Survey: Obama's Base Focused on Jobs
As he prepares to give the State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama has reason to be cautiously optimistic about the support he will get from his base for his re-election bid. However, to cement their support, he will need to focus on the issues that are most important to them in the…
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Gossip Sites Lose, News Numbers Rise
Visitors to African American-oriented websites upended the pecking order in December, according to the comScore Inc. research company, ending the long run of the lurid gossip site MediaTakeOut.com as champion eyeball magnet. That distinction, for now, goes to the website of Black Entertainment Television. Moreover, the newsier sites HuffPost BlackVoices, theGrio.com, theRoot.com, Essence.com and NewsOne,…
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Literacy Leader: Reading Is Not Optional
Walter Dean Myers, the award-winning author of more than 100 books, including the New York Times bestseller Monster, was sworn in this week as the national ambassador for young people’s literature. The position is designed to raise national awareness of the importance of an appreciation for books to the betterment of children’s lives. In other…
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Black Indie Filmmaker Pens Letter to Lucas
George Lucas’ recent comments about the difficulty of securing funding for Red Tails — the headline-grabbing movie released this week that chronicles the groundbreaking achievements of the Tuskegee Airmen — have plenty of African Americans rushing to buy tickets to prove Hollywood naysayers wrong. It seems that the black film community is on the edge…
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George Curry Group Buys Heart & Soul
Sandra Guzman, Formerly of Latina, Named Editor-in-Chief A group that includes veteran journalist George E. Curry has purchased Heart & Soul, a health-and-wellness magazine targeting African Americans, and named former Latina magazine editor-in-chief Sandra Guzman its top editor as part of an effort to broaden its focus. “Racial and ethnic minorities constituted 91.7 percent of…
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Black Republicans Make Their Choice
With four Republican candidates left in the presidential race, each giving his all in the countdown to the South Carolina primary on Saturday, the GOP electorate is still up for grabs. And despite the persistent “Mitt Romney is inevitable” narrative, for many Republican voters the nominee is anything but a foregone conclusion. The Root spoke…