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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…
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How Well Do You Really Know Ron Paul?
With views that lean more libertarian than textbook conservative, Ron Paul swept the youth vote in the 2012 Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, placing third in both contests. And despite his conservative platform and the existence of newsletters containing racist statements that went out under his name decades ago, the Texas congressman’s stands against…
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NPR Loses Another Black Male Voice
Alex Kellogg, Wall St. Journal Alum, Leaves After 14 Months Alex P. Kellogg, one of NPR’s two black male on-air journalists, has left the network after 14 months on the job, Kellogg told Journal-isms on Monday. Kellogg’s departure reaffirms that the network’s decades-old issues regarding diversity have yet to be solved. They are often attributed…
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Day of Reckoning for Pat Buchanan
MSNBC to Decide Whether to Return Commentator to Air After years of complaints that commentator Pat Buchanan’s diatribes were racist and anti-Semitic, MSNBC is ready to make a decision about whether to return Buchanan to the air. “Pat and I are going to meet soon and a decision will be made,” MSNBC President Phil Griffin…