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Obama Chides Media for Birther Story
President Releases Birth Certificate “There comes a moment in almost every American presidency when the commander in chief turns media critic in chief,” David Folkenflik reported Wednesday for NPR. “For President Obama, that moment occurred Wednesday morning. He released his birth certificate to quell persistent rumors that he was somehow not born in this country…
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Is Barack Obama Finally an American?
Does Donald Trump have any sense of decency? He declared this morning that he was “proud” of himself for forcing President Obama to make his detailed birth certificate public. The president of the United States had to “prove” that he was actually a United States citizen, two years into his term. “We do not have…
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Obama and the Elusive Idea of Race
It’s not surprising to get involved in a heated discussion about race when you’re strolling through a museum exhibit called “Race: Are We So Different?” And wouldn’t you know that President Barack Obama would get caught right in the middle of it. Not all charges that the president isn’t who he says he is come…
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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…