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Elizabeth Taylor Tributes Touch on Race
Story Includes “Cleopatra,” Civil Rights, Michael Jackson “I did a short story on her when she held a news conference in D.C. to promote the play, ‘The Little Foxes’ that she was starring in at the Warner Theater,” Brenda Wilson, then reporting for NPR, recalled for Journal-isms on Wednesday. “The then Mrs. Warner was a…
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In Loleatta's Honor: Top Underground Club Singers
Loleatta Holloway arguably possessed one of the most recognizable voices in disco and house music. Her 1980 collaboration with songwriter-producer Dan Hartman on “Love Sensation” set dance floors on fire. The song — and Holloway’s career — enjoyed a second wind a decade later when it was sampled by both Black Box for “Ride on…
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Black Women Who Rule the Art Scene
The doyenne of African-American art, Catlett, who died April 2, 2012, devoted three-quarters of a century to teaching and making art “relevant to her people.” This is an approach she had taken since the 1920s and ‘30s, when she worked in the mural division of the Works Progress Administration. With advanced degrees in art history,…
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Ain't I a Victim?
“Where were [her parents] when this girl was seen wandering at all hours with no supervision and pretending to be much older?” —Kisha Williams, Cleveland, Texas, resident, in “Girl’s Sex Assault Rocks Cleveland,” Houston Chronicle I’m pretty sure that when James C. McKinley, a reporter for the New York Times, filed “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas…
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Meet the Nation's Top Black Economists
The Atlanta Post has profiled eight of the top African-American economists in a gallery revealing that despite their profession’s less-than-sexy rep, they’re up to some interesting and important stuff. Not to mention, their points of view and priorities are as diverse as the black community itself. Some highlights: Roland Fryer decided to study economics because…
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AOL Cuts 900 Jobs, Says Black Voices Spared
Ken Strickland, a veteran producer in NBC News’ Washington bureau, was named deputy bureau chief Friday by Antoine Sanfuentes, the recently named Washington bureau chief.The appointment means a Hispanic journalist and a black one will remain in the top two spots in the bureau. “He will work with me to manage the day-to-day operation of…
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Notorious HIV: The Criminal Prosecution of a Virus
In Texas, a man is serving 35 years in prison for spitting at a police officer. In the state of Washington, a 19-year-old college student sits behind bars on first-degree assault charges for having unprotected sex with his girlfriend. A Georgia woman was sentenced to eight years in prison after consensual sex without a condom,…
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National Women's Hall of Fame: Coretta Scott King and Billie Holiday Among 2011 Inductees
Today on International Women’s Day, the National Women’s Hall of Fame has announced its 2011 inductees, who include the late civil rights icon Coretta Scott King and legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday. Eleven American women who have made valuable and enduring contributions to our nation will be honored. These women will be formally inducted on…
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Does Black or Latino Ownership Matter?
Question Raised as Huffington Takes Over AOL Sites “Now that AOL’s acquisition of Huffington Post has closed, Arianna Huffington will take control of AOL Latino, AOL Black Voices and other AOL sites as part of the $315 million deal that puts the Huffington Post under the AOL umbrella,” Richard Prince wrote Monday for the Poynter…
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Glenn Ligon: Art That Pushes the Boundaries of 'Otherness'
Glenn Ligon (born 1960), Hands, 1996. Silkscreen ink and gesso on unstretched canvas, 82 × 144 inches (208.3 × 365.8 cm). Collection of Eileen Harris Norton. Photograph by Fredrik Nilsen. © Glenn Ligon. Malcolm X (Version 1) #1, 2000. Vinyl-based paint, silkscreen ink and gesso on canvas, 96 × 72 inches (243.8 × 182.9 cm).…