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The CBC Event Schedule
Congressional Black Caucus Week, also known as the Annual Legislative Conference, is here! Check out The Root’s guide to select events around Washington, D.C., from Sept. 21-24 — ranging from town halls and networking receptions to invitation-only parties. Wednesday, Sept. 21 Registration/Ticketing OpenLocation: D.C. Convention CenterTime: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. CPAR Future FocusLocation: D.C.…
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How to Restore Blacks' Upward Mobility?
In his jobs speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama spoke eloquently of a time when Americans felt that hard work invariably paid off. We “believed in a country where everyone gets a fair shake and does their fair share.” I’m not convinced that most black Americans ever really felt that way. Many of us…
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Roscoe Dellums' Berkeley Memories
On Sept. 23, 2011, 500 black leaders and luminaries — including Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, former Ambassador Andrew Young and entertainer Common — will converge on schools across the country to share their stories with students. The second annual “Back to School With The HistoryMakers” event is being presented by The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest…
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2011 Emmy Awards: No Surprises There
The 63rd annual Emmy Awards aired Sunday, and though Glee’s Jane Lynch served as host, it failed to hit many high notes. There was a little drama before the ceremony even started, when 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin asked to be removed from the pretaped opening sketch after Fox killed a joke about the phone-hacking…
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Article Compounds Family's 9/11 Tragedy
Attendant on Doomed Flight Falsely Labeled “Hysterical” The world learned that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had begun when flight attendant Betty Ong, flying on the hijacked plane that left from Boston, picked up the in-flight phone and punched the buttons for the American Airlines reservations desk. ” ‘The cockpit is not answering…
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1st NY Times Female Editor Talks Gender
No Difference in Taste or Sensibility, Jill Abramson Says Jill Abramson, who last week became the first female editor of the New York Times in its 160-year history, said Sunday, “The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn’t true.” The statement was challenged by women who have studied the…
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Widespread Bias Continues in 'Postracial' U.S.
Majorie Valbrun at America’s Wire explores postracial America in a story that quotes social psychologists and experts on race relations, who say that structural racism is alive and well. WASHINGTON — Recent public opinion polls show that more whites than African-Americans believe that the United States has entered a “post-racial” era in which racial bias doesn’t…
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Revealing Roots: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Sandy Harris chose to fight for the freedom of other blacks. And this sense of service became a leitmotif in Lawrence-Lightfoot’s family. People who could have passed didn’t pass. People who could have stayed in the North instead headed South to work in impoverished communities. It’s a structuring principle of Lawrence-Lightfoot’s ancestry. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is…
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Black Teacher Calls Student 'White Boy'
A Florida teacher was suspended without pay for one day last month after making inappropriate racial comments to his second-graders, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. Sixty-year-old Billy C. Miles, who is black, reportedly told the class he didn’t want the “black people” misbehaving in public and said to the only white child in the class:…
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The Modest Goals of Black College Football
Another college football season started Sept. 1, with the bulk of attention heaped on the usual suspects, powerhouse programs such as Oklahoma, Alabama and Louisiana State. Such schools — members of lucrative Bowl Championship Series conferences — enjoy regular appearances on national TV, play in stadiums that seat 80,000 to 100,000 fans and often appear…