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Black Canadian Like Me
My friends and I attended a Jill Scott concert in Toronto a few years back. We were very excited. Her music was like an oasis of craft in a desert landscape of mediocrity. As Jill belted out those notes, we sang along and swayed. She led into her wicked tune “It’s Love” by inviting the…
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Plane Carrying Michelle Obama Forced to Abort Landing
First lady Michelle Obama was returning from New York Monday when her plane was forced to abort its landing at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as a result of an air traffic controller’s mistake. The Boeing 737 came dangerously close to a 200-ton military cargo jet when it was told it could not land. Vice…
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Kemba Walker: UConn Star Reads First Book
University of Conneticut star guard Kemba Walker didn’t surprise anyone when he announced that he would forgo his senior year with the Huskies and enter into the 2011 NBA draft. He did, however, shock people when he admitted that just weeks ago — at age 20 — he finished reading a book for the first…
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The GOP's Big Battle With Diversity
“It’s all about education,” said Dale Crosby. “I don’t think everyone understands what the Republican Party is about.” In between listening to speeches from undeclared presidential candidates, Crosby was explaining why he was one of the very few African-American delegates at the Spartanburg County Republican Party Convention in South Carolina on Saturday. “We are not…
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Should African Americans Care About the Civil War?
Early in the predawn darkness of April 12 exactly 150 years ago, a signal gun from the artillery batteries ringing Charleston, S.C., harbor sent a shell sparkling into the air, to explode in a shower of splinters over Fort Sumter, the solitary U.S. outpost in the middle of the harbor. All of the cannons and…
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Journalists of Color Decline for Third Year
U.S. “Minority” Population at 36 percent; in Newsrooms, 12.79 percent The number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors reported Thursday in disclosing the results of its annual diversity survey. Minority journalists declined from 5,500 to 5,300, though overall, “American newspapers…
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'The Book of Mormon': 'South Park' on Broadway?
With The Book of Mormon taking home 9 Tony Awards this year, we’re pulling this review of the Broadway musical from our archives. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the guys who created South Park, like to boast that they are equal-opportunity offenders. Which is true. Over the past 10 years that their potty-mouthed, thumb-in-your-eye animated…
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Manning Marable's Students Remember Him
In his moving tribute to Manning Marable, black-studies scholar Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of sociology at Georgetown University, writes, “Marable nurtured and guided a veritable tribe of graduate students and junior professors as they sought sure footing in the academy.” Here are the recollections of some members of that “veritable tribe,” many of whom…
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Obama Honors First Black Commerce Secretary
Today in New York City, President Barack Obama participated in the United States Mission to the United Nations Building dedication of the federal building in memory of the late Ron Brown, a Democratic trailblazer and the first black commerce secretary. Brown served in the Clinton administration after helping him win the 1992 presidential election as…
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The Bitter Battle Over Voter ID
On the list of types of state legislation with the potential for big national impact, voter identification is right up there with moves to reduce collective-bargaining rights of public-sector unions. Such efforts, which would require voters to provide ID at the polls, are being voted on amid fierce debate in many states. But are they…